Complicated Reality

Once a thinker had a question he sure thought was neat:

Of all the creatures in the land, which had the most feet?

Could it be the millipede, with a thousand little features?

"That doesn't count, it's just a bug, I mean a proper creature.

Nothing crawling on a leaf, no centipedes or moths,

I'm thinkin' about the sorts of creatures that could walk a city block.

Seafood shouldn't make the list, like lobsters, shrimp and crabs

and spiders give me willies so we'll be having none of that.

Bears and Alligators and Elephants each have four

but I've never seen any of them wearing shoes before.

Feet belong in shoes and socks" he thought, wiggling his toes.

"I've only seen shoes in shops that sell us humans clothes.

That means that we're the number one for our two-in-number feet,

and since I'm the one who's thinking, I get to write the sheet.

My name is at the top because I'm the closest one around

Until I meet someone with three, I'll hold on to the crown."

He announced "I have the most feet in the entire world!"

Funny how his thinking left him believing the absurd.