King Penguin

Behold! Breaking the rules and when the rules break.

King Penguins, King Penguins

King penguins are civil-lies creatures.

They've had to tell lies to survive,

for one truth of their lives' stranger features

is that each is a king in their tribe!

Each king is an absolute monarch,

but a wheedling diplomat, too.

Each lie serves the old regime's realism dark,

and each fact serves the opposite true.

I never knew there were king penguins until now. I had thought only the emperor penguin to be the royalty of Antarctica.