Song of the Fire Alarms

"I want to take people on safaris. That is my dream."

So he established a safari ride.

There weren't any animals because it was a parking lot.

He printed out pictures of animals and drove people around to look at them.

"Be careful! The Rhino may charge!" he said, as the cardboard cutout of the rhino tipped over.

He bought some plastic animals and some stuffed ones from a toy store, and included them in the safari ride.

He painted traffic cones green so they'd look like trees.

He took people on expeditions through this wilderness. They were frightened by the plastic animals.

Then the plastic animals were taken by plastic poachers.

Then he went out of business.

He moved to the heart of the city.

No crickets at night.

He wanted to hear the sound of crickets. As a child, he had loved the sound of crickets at night.

Now he didn't hear crickets.

So one day he set 20 buildings on fire.

Then he sat in the road and listened to all the alarms.

"They sound almost like crickets!" He proclaimed.

And he fell asleep in the road, listening to 20 burning buildings softly chirping in the night air.