Welsh Tidy Mouse
While many humans, Rodney, hanker to
Exterminate us mice, you have no fear
Long-whiskered creatures might invade chez vous.
Since you installed no mousetraps, Rodney, near
Home entry points, you made me welcome, so,
To show my gratitude, I cleared the mess
Inside your garden shed as quid pro quo.
Day after day, you let the bench regress.
Yet every morning after, I restore
My order, leaving you to wonder who
On earth can stand this mindless daily chore—
Us mice can, Rodney, clean-up’s what we do! …
Should humans not ban mousetraps from their house,
Enabling service from a tidy mouse?
Idler
Is Custard unwell? No, the crazy
Dude’s merely incredibly lazy—
Laid dead in his spot
Even though he is not
Ready yet to help push up a daisy!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO., the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. His sonnet was prompted by the Washing Post story, “Mouse caught on camera cleaning a man’s shed, night after night.” His limerick was inspired by the Metro story, “‘Incredibly lazy’ horse named Custard keeps making people think he’s dead.”
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