Corporate Success, and its effect on a sensitive rodent

 

My pet rat Brian

decided to become a corporate giant.

He studied Business Management,

accountancy, marketing, import/export

was on boards and committees

supported the Conservative party

and soon became the world’s wealthiest rat.

But he became over-stressed

racing to stay ahead of the status quo

and suffered a cardiac infarction.

 

He was heard to whisper

to his sec rat ary

from his hospital bed

after a five-hour open heart “procedure”

that he’d give his right whiskers

to find a way out of the rat race.

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Poem Copyright © 2007 John Irvine. All rights reserved.
Illustration Copyright © 2007 Dave Freeman. All rights reserved.