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