On a news video I saw a hippo lunge
out of the water and with his mouth
wide open tip over a silver fishing boat
with a shocked and frightened man in it.
The man emerged and grabbed onto
the tipped over boat and climbed on it,
and I thought for sure the hippo was
going to resurface and kill him,
but on a boat nearby two men had
rifles shouldered,
and the hippo just vanished under
the water.
Maybe he tipped over the boat just
for a prank,
or maybe he saw the men with the rifles
and swam away hidden underwater.
Bob Boyd