urban dog
08-22-2007, 01:07 AM
WILLY, THE RAT TERRIER
He nibbles on my nose.
Why? Heaven only knows!
Each tooth feels like a pin.
I need much thicker skin!
Yet Willy, the rat terrier,
Could not be any merrier!
After a bath or stroll
He sprints around the whole
Apartment like a race
Car driven by an ace
Who’d swallowed too much speed.
(Perhaps it’s just his breed
That is to blame for that.)
He’s like a mad preschooler
Who drank from the wine cooler
And got so hugely gassed,
Runs so awful fast,
Is such an acrobat,
A poor rat would have no shot
At evading such a tot!
I wouldn’t like to be
That rat, believe you me!
He’d shake it side to side
Until the critter died,
Which would be just as quick
As death by a dropped brick.
Even a swift hare
Wouldn’t have a prayer!
Yet the only life this brat
Has so far ever seized
Was neither hare nor rat,
But the schnoz from which I’ve sneezed.
Copyright © 2007 by Martin Elster.
All Rights Reserved.
He nibbles on my nose.
Why? Heaven only knows!
Each tooth feels like a pin.
I need much thicker skin!
Yet Willy, the rat terrier,
Could not be any merrier!
After a bath or stroll
He sprints around the whole
Apartment like a race
Car driven by an ace
Who’d swallowed too much speed.
(Perhaps it’s just his breed
That is to blame for that.)
He’s like a mad preschooler
Who drank from the wine cooler
And got so hugely gassed,
Runs so awful fast,
Is such an acrobat,
A poor rat would have no shot
At evading such a tot!
I wouldn’t like to be
That rat, believe you me!
He’d shake it side to side
Until the critter died,
Which would be just as quick
As death by a dropped brick.
Even a swift hare
Wouldn’t have a prayer!
Yet the only life this brat
Has so far ever seized
Was neither hare nor rat,
But the schnoz from which I’ve sneezed.
Copyright © 2007 by Martin Elster.
All Rights Reserved.