Non Gradus Anus Rodentum!

 

My pet rat Brian

fancies himself

as one of the elite

He reads Joyce

and Burns

and Solzhenitsyn

and Browning

and claims

to understand.

He is given to

flamboyant paw gestures,

smoking Gauloises

in a jade cigarette holder

and wearing cravats.

He claims to be

one of the

lite rat i…

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