An Odd Couple

A dashing, young field mouse
Once married a shrew,
And they set up housekeeping
In an old tennis shoe.
                                                    
When their babies were born--
Not shrews and not mice--
They were the proud parents
Of a shoe full of shrice.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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