Best Vermin Poems

Rats, mice, cockroaches and pigeons 
are all classified as disease carrying vermin, 
but one fact gets overlooked time and time again. 
The diseases that they carry were all created by humans, 
with our dump sites, our street trash and our sewer systems....

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It's a grand old boat-still quite reliable.
But from the darkness below.
A crimson breasted leviathan is clawing holes.
Deep into its starry soul.
She's quickly listing.
Vermin gnawing away at the sextant.
Panic is hastily jumping ship.
With the NorthStar stuffed in their bindles...

The loyalists are bailing water.
Hope garnished in salt...

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Whoever said
Landlords have all the power
Knows that of which I speak:

Reading land leases.
Not a normal pastime,
but perhaps because
I have not read even one
written in compassion's voice
and not retribution's
self-empowering choice.

Thou shalt not
do anything
to attract
vermin
or pests.

No composting,
no vegetable gardening,
no careless garbage bags outside.
We retain the right to...

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Rats and cockroaches
have moved to the country.

The city is overrun with unsanitary humans,
it needs a clean cloth to thrive upon,
not the dishcloth grime
of much degraded minds.

It is a disgrace, a black mark
upon an already uncivil civilization,
however, the rats and cockroaches
are vacationing and will not return
to...

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There is a tool box on my desk and it is full of good stuff
Scissors, masks, paper clips, cocoa mix, tree pencils so rough
Were I always run to and look first, my go-to-find-something place.
I would not be surprised to see green chickens from outer space.

Like...

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My garden backs onto a farm
Which shouldn’t cause any alarm
With so much fresh air
I’m glad I live there 
And only one thing spoils its charm

I feed the birds and feral cats
At night I enjoy watching bats
The field mice and spiders
That reside beside us
Are fine, but...

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She says “He treats me so well!”
I say “I can hardly tell!”
She says “No one understands him 
but me!”
I say “Sista, I hear you, but why are
you on the floor with bloody knee. . .caps?”

The rhymes and the reasons given by women
Allow them to mistakenly...

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an intrusion of roaches
dines nightly on rice
i see only by daylight...

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When you see so many flies
Be careful, there is a carrion
Somewhere. Behave like a lion
Run, run. The flies are all over your thighs
They can surely and slowly devour you.
An environment, which is full of lies
Will eventually crumble too.
Lies cannot fly
Through the clouds, in the sky.
When...

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What you’ve bothered to pick
Is a heartbreak topic:
The mind Ended Love warps
And on one’s folly  harps;
Just as heat could man burst
Still, Heartbreak Is the worst…

Men file in, bed defile,
You’re with an office file.
Joan does not claim it’s right
But expects not a fight.
You’d delayed wedding...

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