In AN OKAPI’S ODE TO THE WINTER OLYMPICS, an okapi recites an ode. But it won’t leave you cold. No way! For it’s both useful and unique. Do you have all the Winter Olympic sports down cold? If not, you’re not alone. Few spectators do. But if you’re tired of being out in the cold, there’s good news: being no run of the mill rhyme-writing ruminant, the okapi, in a poem that’s hard to topi, does all of us a favor by putting all those different sports, from alpine skiing and biathlon to snowboarding and speed skating, in one whale of a nifty nutshell. It’s quite a feat. But will the okapi’s ode get the gold in the end? Unless you give it the cold shoulder, you’ll be the judge of that!