Last Wednesday morning a devastating fire blazed through an animal shelter in the Canadian city of Toronto. Fire chiefs suspect that mice or rats were to blame after chewing through electrical wires in the ceiling. In total nearly 100 cats were killed as were three dogs and some rats up for adoption.
“It’s unfortunate and ironic that mice caused the fire that killed the cats,” Ian McConachie, the Toronto Humane Society spokesman told the BBC.
Mouse killed the cat?
We snacked on those wires,
All eight of us fulfilling our desires,
For precious revenge,
“Bite hard to avenge!”,
Our brave leader shouted.
It was easy – the rubber sheaths ripped,
Then, as power was routed,
Flames zipped!
We had to do the deed,
For the sake of our crucial needs.
No more remains,
Decapitation stains,
Or fatal last rodent squeals!
“They tortured our comrades before they killed them
Leaving their skins red in furred peels,
Damn them!”
They burned, fast, but
Their screams remained in death’s noisome glut.
All one hundred
Of their groans thundered!
Feline bodies wilting
In fires kindled after years of terror,
Vengeance gained, power tilting,
Fairer!
© Edward Beaman-Hodgkiss
To read more about this unfortunate story visit the related BBC article from the 19th of December.
(Please note – These are quickly written verses in response to current events which I create for fun and in no way exemplify the careful and meticulous poems I can create for you. See my poetry portfolio for examples)
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Non fiction! I love the way this moves with the inner thoughts of the murderous little rodents which are probably not so dissimilar from two-feeted fools.
So much similarity with human animals. Loved it!
frenzied entropies
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