We have an unwanted mouse in our house
But am I permitted to
kill it? No is the answer
My son suggested I
leave the back door open
So it could let it
self out when it was ready
My wife wants me to
buy a humane trap
So I can catch it,
release it, and catch it again next week
How confused we are of
what animals are
We have this romantic
notion of the animal kingdom
That they are just
like humans but in animal form
We have endowed the
beasts with human qualities
Beatrix Potter’s tales
are a classic example of this
Stories spoon fed to
young eager minds for decades
Mice do not live in
houses, watch TV or play scrabble
It’s just a mouse, its
vermin, and it’s eating my food
They have been
humanised in a century of cartoons
In that undignified
way we have Disney-fied them
Well we need to
un-Disneyfy the creatures double quick
So I have baited my
trap and I will wait for the snap
Because Mice don’t
live in houses especially not in mine
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