Rat Festation
I come in my house one day
Just got home from getting groceries
You can always get the good deals on Mondays
And I’m talking to one of my girlfriends who is shopping too
We chitchat of everything while she does her groceries when I hear a sound
Like scurrying through the floor
I thought it was the rain pouring on the windows
But then I heard it again
That whispering sounds of scurring
Of scratching
My floors had claw marks all over
And thats when I saw it
A RAT!
I dropped my phone and run throughout the house, getting on chairs and tables
Get away you foul creature
A rat with red eyes, looking back it me
These are almost impossible to get rid of
Where do these animals come from?
All rats are the same, always wild animals that need to be annexed
It disappears in my kitchen where I patch the hole it came through
The next day i’m doing laundry when hear that sound
Scurrying across the floor, the sound of running
Panting, exhaustion
And I see the rat near my clothes and I scream
Get away you foul creature
A rat with red eyes, looking back it me
These are almost impossible to get rid of
Where do these animals come from?
They just keep on coming, invading my space and where
I live
They need to go or else they will always come back
I set traps all over the house
Setting cheese in one, poison in another
All gadgets from A to Z
We need to get rid of them , they are a danger to us
But you know what the great thing about setting traps are?
That I have the power to control their lives, all with a piece of cheese
And just like cheese, all things go sour
One by one, these wild animals are gone
By a few days, the scurrying stops
But the sound of running
panting , exhaustion play in my mind
But if they ever come back
They know what awaits them
And the scurrying will stop
And they will cease to exist
Copyright © Margaret Paige | Year Posted 2022
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