Pests
By nature,
I'm not
violent
but those
damn pests
are driving me to...
They're more
bothersome
than social workers or
salesmen
Roaches make better
company
I'll try...
I tried just
dropping them off
They follow you
Nothing works
Sure poison
will do the trick
kills them deader
than stone
but they
come back
I don’t know anymore
I chopped them up
They weren't recognizable
parts here, parts there
But for every one
you kill
nine more pop up
I’m at the end
The smell
the noise
that constant
meowing
I can't...
This is Michael Gorelets reporting for the Six O’Clock news. Tragedy visited West Chester today when a house fire claimed the life of 65-year-old Selina Craig. No foul play is suspected. Amazingly, Mrs. Craig’s cats seem to have survived unscathed. All 117 of them. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
© 2003 Brian Rosenberger
Brian Rosenberger, also known as the fifth horseman Anxiety, publishes the dark poetry webzine
Decompositions. He lives in Cincinnati with three cats. At last count.
