An "Ask Auntie Lowan" Digression.

Elepant, a spirit in the bus
Elepant who brings dath.
He swallows a whole palmfruit
thorns and all.
He tramples down the grass
with his mortar legs.
Wherever he walks
the grass is forbidden to stand up again.
He tears a man like an old rag
and hangs him up in the tree.
With his single hand
he pulls two palm trees to the ground.
If he had two hands
he would tear the heaven to shreds.
An elephant is not a load for an old man --
Nor for a young man either.
(from the Yoruba, trans Ulli Beier)

Oh for far-off monkeyland,
ripe monkeybreads on baobabs
and the wind strums out monkeytunes
from monkeywindows monkeybars.

Monkeyheroes rise and fight
in monkeyfield and monkeysquare,
And monkeysanatoriums
have monkeypatients crying there.

Monkeygirl monkeytaught
masters monkeyalphabet,
evil monkey pounds his thrawn
feet in monkeyprison yet.

Monkeymill is nearly made,
miles of monkeymayonnaise,
winningly unwinnable
winning monkeymind wins praise.

Monkeyking on monkeypole
harangues the crowd in monkeytongue,
monkeyheaven comes to some,
monkeyhell for those undone.

Macaque, gorilla, chimpanzee,
baboon, orangutan, each beast
reads his monkeynewssheet at
the end of each twilight repast.

With monkeysupper memories
the monkeyouthouse rumbles, hums,
monkeyswaddies start to march,
right turn, left turn, shoulder arms --

monkeymilitary fright
reflected in each monkeyface,
with monkeygun in monkeyfist
the monkeys' world the world we face.
Sandow Weores (trans. Edwin Morgan)

delightfully dexterous and sensitive trunks.

And here's one a bit like it...
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Australia-Repentant-Car-Thief.html

BillW -- your linked site comes up as a blank page on my screen. Where did I go wrong?