• Frankie was a pirate penguin
    her favorite was Sir Francis Drake
    Don't bother her with details
    "we're both fowl for heaven's sake!"

    She lay their effects together and
    with bottled message set out to sea.
    Some say "don't meet your heroes -"
    because of broken heart posthumously

    Friends found sword of theirs...
    wrapped amongst tattered sail.
    Unfortunately those of us know
    the story of Jonah and the whale.

    ((To be continued...))