Pop! Whoo! Wirl!

The dizzy little fish named Snappy twirled!

Up, up, up to the sun,

His golden scales brightly glistened.

Down, down, down,

Staring at the sand he sadly frowned.

Then up he swam again

Left and right he zigzagged

Round and round he swam

Through the rainbow coral and over peeping crabs, he raced his shadow fast.

Until… he stopped…

Something peculiar caught his lens’s.

“What’s that?” he asked, rotating his eyes.

“It’s not a fish, but a seal in disguise…”.

“Or maybe”, he said as he took a closer look… A penguin dressed in yellow with a pink bow tie”!

Per chance could it be a dolphin or whale

Or a mermaid that grew legs to replace her tail…

“Hmmm, what would that look like?” Snappy thought on this with all his might…

A mermaid that grew legs to replace her tail… could it be an octopus?

- No, it needs 8 limbs… Snappy only saw 4

A mermaid that grew legs to replace her tail… a walrus?

- No, it needs long limbs… Snappy only saw short

A mermaid that grew legs to replace her tail… - No clue

So, he thought and he thought and thought some more, then remembered Uncle Bill Snapper’s folklore….

He told little Snappy that outside the sea there lived 2-legged monsters called a family. There was a mom, a dad, a girl, a boy, a baby and something called a toy.

Snappy laughed, “Ha ha ha ha ha”.. but wait…

He thought, “Folklores aren’t real, is this a mistake”

“Is it a…. Girl? She’s right there staring at me”

“A girl, a girl” he thought, how could this be?

Oh Snappy, don’t you see, it must be, as little girls don’t live in the sea!

They can’t zig and zag and swoosh around, or adjust their eyes when the sonar sounds.

Their scales don’t glisten and their suits aren’t feathered,

Could this be trick of the moon or weather?

But a girl has limbs - 2 arms, 2 legs

She stands upright like stalagmites in a cave

She wears a dress that ebbs and flows, like the seaweed dances as the tide goes

Red ribbon and yellow dress, make her shine among the rest

“Hello little girl”, Snappy said, eyes bright

She waved back then twirled, …wow what a sight!

Snappy said. “I’m pleased to meet you, it’s my first day. Would you be me friend, visit and play?”

The little girl agreed and from the on they were friends, whooshing and whirling in the aquarium.

Who would’ve thought on that special day, Snappy’s greatest discovery would be a girl monster who’d like to play!!

Pop! Whoo! Wirl!