[New-Poetry] rodent poems sought

[Anny Ballardini]

to which I add vipers, but no rats,
one can still write one...

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From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
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> Strange, I can't remember ever composing a poem with either a rat or a 
> mouse in it.  Anyone else have lacunae in their poems like that--I mean an 
> absence of something very common that most poets write about?  I've had 
> dogs and cats, and different kinds of birds.  Fish.  Lizards.  Squirrels. 
> Most animals, but not mice and rats.
>
> --Bob G.