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At first, utter shock that it was there, poking a nose from around a plant pot
Then a rapid blitskrieg across the gravel, snatching a peanut and off like a shot
Back under the fence to a warren of tunnels below the shed and back to it’s brood
Eat children, Eat, I have brought you food
At first it became a game to see
Sometimes my wife sat next to me
10.20am on the dot each morn
Great king rat appeared for his corn
But soon, great king rat became cancerous
The peanuts cast asunder from the bird table was never enough
To feed a hungry horde
He crossed the line, broke the cord
Stepped over the border of territory and more
Sitting on the step of my backdoor
Too close for comfort, too close to home
Raid the larder bare the bone
With his army of hungry young running in his wake
It was them or us, too much at  stake
So I bought a poison to make their blood thin
Forgive me god, for I did sin
They died an agonizing death
Four days one went with dying breath
Nose oozing blood with stomach blown
If only I had known
Anticoagulant it said on the tin
No! it was immoral, inhuman a sin
If it ever happened again, if they wanted to feed
I would close my eyes, let them breed
Anticoagulant to kill a rat
No gods creature should suffer like that
If poison need, if poison be
Make it swift and cruelty free
I disposed of great king rat and his family of young
But the label on the tin decieved me, the pain in me watching them suffer, it stung
It was an inhumane lingering torturous way to go
Too long, too painful and too slow
Antigoagulants should be banned, buried deep beneath the sod
Who are we to play god
So sorry great king rat 
I did not want to rid of you and your young like that

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