NaPoWriMo Day 13: Mouse Tail

Hi, I’m doing NaPoWriMo on napowrimo.net. The challenge is to write a poem a day in April. 

For Day 13, the prompt plays on the idea of stealing and writing a non-apology for it.

This is the prompt for the April 13 poem:

Today, I challenge you to write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen. Maybe it’s something as small as your sister’s hairbrush (or maybe it was your sister’s boyfriend!).

Mouse Tail

I am the brown scuffling mouse

Who lives behind the skirting

In the kitchen of your house.

I am the one who will eat

The savoury samples off your floor

At his leisure while you sleep,

Have a little disco dance by night

Beneath your glittery disco ball –

I consider this my rodential right.

I sniff the cupboards for openings,

Taking care not to leave any droppings

Or evidence of my midnight feastings.

This is my half-assed apology…

Written in dust upon your table,

Though you’ll never know of it

As I cannot write in Human fable.

Ah, a feline scent scares me – I confess!

I have dawdled here far too long

And must hide from your furry giantess.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 13, 2020