Mobbed By Mice
If you have ever been mobbed by mice
You will not easily forget it.
There is a certain smell they have
Their fur is a texture you will never forget
As long as you live
They can put perfume on but it will not help
Disguising mouse smell is like disguising the taste of a jalapeno pepper
It simply cannot be done
It’s not like I have been mobbed by mice
But I have imagined it in my dreams,
And it is not pretty.
Especially if the mice are real, not Mickey and Minnie.
Not Mortimer. Not Disney.
The kind you find in your garage who sneak around on rafters
Terrorizing you with their ugly tails and their mouse smells.
Once smelled, it cannot be unsmelled.
Mobbed by Mice. In my sleep. Once or twice a year.
Nothing like it. Thank God!
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2020
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