The elderly loved one
has a house, and
that house has a mouse
and another mouse
and another mouse.
A mouse family,
A mouse neighbourhood,
A mouse community,
A mouse town,
A mouse city.
It might be a welcome diversion–
Adorable fluffballs,
with round pink ears,
dangling tails, would be
delightful entertainment,
were their planners better
sanitary engineers.
Their dereliction
leads to mass eviction!
Bleach and scrubbing!
Now there’s interdiction,
sweet mousies who survive,
to you a benediction:
for happy life,
in another jurisdiction!
Shawn L. Bird 