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!