There's an Elephant in my Room..

There's an elephant in my room. He's big and he's taking up a lot of extra space. I feed him peanuts and straw. And, of course, water...he needs water....

My room was pretty small before the elephant showed up: now I can hardly move. He doesn't do much either. Just eats and drinks. Sometimes I jump on his back and go for a ride but it's not much fun cause the room is so small...we just go around in circles and then we're back where we started...

I can't really take him outside cause the neighbours would think I was crazy to have an elephant in my room. Some of the neighbours have seen him but not all of them. They don't say much actually.

He's really in the way, he isn't much of a conversationalist and, to be honest, he really smells awful. And the mess....I don't have enough gardens to compost all of his crap....I could fertilize all of Toronto with his waste....That's a lot of B.S. or I guess it's E.S.....

Don't get me wrong, I like elephants, but not in my room.......

I guess I could ask him to leave, or force him out, or pay somebody to take him away...But, I don't know where to start so I think I'll just have to get used to having him here. I really wish he'd just leave on his own... But NO....he just stays on, bugging me and using up my food and taking up all this room and smelling.... I really wish he'd go away...What am I supposed to do with an elephant in my room? And why did he pick me to come and stay with? Why do things like this always happen to me? He could have gone next door: they like animals, they have a dog....

It's funny really, when you think about it....there's an elephant in my room and nobody says anything but I know they all know...I wonder why they don't talk about my elephant. Well, if they're not going to say anything than I'm not: that's for sure. Maybe they haven't really noticed and I'm just being overly sensitive.

Or maybe not....Come on it's a dam elephant for goodness sake: who wouldn't notice that? Why doesn't somebody just come along and take him or rescue him or something? Why isn't anybody helping me out with this? Stuff like this is just so typical for my life. Well, I guess if he's not leaving I should probably add on an extra room or something for him to keep him warm in the winter....

There's an elephant in my room.....Did you notice?

Do you have an elephant in your room? What do you want to do but can't? What's stopping you? What's your elephant? Do you make excuses for your elephant....well he can't really manage without me....it wouldn't be nice to just let him go.... Do you pretend he's not there? What do you mean I'm wrong? I never make mistakes. It's you who are mistaken madam. What excuses do you make for him? Oh him, the elephant, well he can't really help himself. He always loses his temper when he runs out of peanuts. Just ignore him.

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