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