YIKES! MICE!
I smelled a RAT
Well . . . it wasn’t really a rat
And . . . it doesn’t matter
Very much about that
But . . . it looked like a rat
Except rats are fatter.
The fact was: it was in our house
And it really was a MOUSE.
Well . . . it wasn’t really in our house
It was actually in the garage
And it happened
When I was with Marj.
We’d been for our walk.
We go on a Friday,
Our favorite weekday.
We love to talk.
We’d enjoyed that day
When she came my way.
We’d hurried our walk,
Enjoyed the fresh air.
We’d had a good talk.
The wind blew our hair.
Her cheeks were rosy.
She is very fair.
We entered the house
Straight through the garage
And would you believe
A MOUSE was at large?
It panicked and scurried beside the wall
And then I thought I had seen it fall
But, before I had time to show it to her,
The whole “mouse thing” was just a blur.
“I just saw a MOUSE,” I told my friend
And she believed me as best friends do,
“But A MOUSE in our HOUSE, that can’t be true.”
“George will be angry if he finds out.
He will know I left the bird seed out.”
And so be it . . . it really was a MOUSE
And the next problem was I’d need a trap.
Oh, woe is me!
I could never KILL!
Not even a flea.
And Marj gave her two bits worth,
“You know, Gail, I have a hunch . . .
Where there’s a MOUSE
There’s usually a bunch.”
Well . . . we didn’t waste time.
We jumped in the car
And we turned on a dime.
We sped to The Northern
In the middle of town
It stocks everything
From goose down
To a horse’s bridle.
The clerks work hard,
They’re never idle.
“If we don’t find one,
There’ll be sh--.
Believe me.
He’ll have a fit,”
I muttered on the way.
And on a shelf
Near a hockey puck
To my surprise,
Was my good luck.
The Northern made my day.
It’s reliable in every way.
. . . . .
I felt so sorry
For the poor dead mice
We used the mouse trap
Not just once, but thrice
Each time we caught one
It was cold as ice
I looked each dead mouse
Right in his small eye
Why, my boy, did you die?
Tears welled in my eyes
I could not help but cry,
Dug each mouse a shallow grave
Prayed to God his soul to save.
