of the story of Annie, Bessie, and Laurie, all of whom were lions in the Boston Zoo. Bored with life, they set out on a walk through Boston Common, where one of them, feeling a might peckish, gobbled up a little old white-haired guy who was sitting on a park bench writing poetry.

Later, they returned to their cage, where they heard on the radio that Robert Frost had disappeared in Bost Common. Annie turned to Bessie and said, "Must've been the poet Laurie ate."


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