The No Ending Story

The no ending story 

  I have tried to tell a story of a rat that fell from the ceiling
  it landed among drinkers in a café I ran,
  never had I seen a café emptying of people in two seconds
  flat; the rat escaped too.  
  I also want to talk about the woman who had been sober
 for ten years, a safe hand in soothing drunken men.
 I also wanted to talk about the eccentric drinking law
 allowing me to sell beer between five and ten o’clock 
 but the customers had to eat first. usually, a sandwich 
after that, they could drink as much as they wanted. 
I will tell you about the rat plague when they pull down 
The old abattoir, but I will leave it for now since I can’t 
get the beginning right, I dislike, rats they are vermin
and I can hear one eating ink in the wastebasket.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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