Nobody's Fool

ACCENT ON LIVING

By ARTHUR W. BELL

THE term, a gull, denotes a dupe,
One easily fooled, a nincompoop;
He is, so far as I can see,
Sagacious in a high degree:
Shore dinners are his chief concern,
Obtaining which he’s quick to learn.

For when he spots some sea-food snack,
A shell too hard for him to crack,
This low-tide forager is shrewd:
He rises to an altitude
And drops the morsel on a rock
To burst it open from the shock.

Thus gravity becomes his tool,
Which proves a gull’s nobody’s fool.