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ESCAPE FROM RODENT RUN
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| “Let’s get the
hell out of here”, they all shrieked |
| The rats in their race
scuttled around and around in circles |
| Looking for a way out
that none of them could find |
| Day in and day out they
awoke to the same hell horror |
| Some of them
appropriately called it Life |
| “Got to make some
more money to pay those bills” they chanted |
| As each morning they
awoke to go to their jobs |
| So busy collecting and
gathering things that they could bring home |
| To enrich their measly
and pathetic little lives |
| “Retirement is
right around the corner,” they believed |
| “So is death”,
the wise old rat said |
| None of them listened to
the ancient rat who tried to warn them |
| “The great
exterminator is upon us”, he announced |
| They laughed and went
back to work so that they could make more money |
| For the rainy days that
they believed were ahead |
| Now the traps were set
and the bait was tempting |
| Cheese and sweets to
lure in these furry tiny creatures |
| “It looks so good,
I simply must try some” one said |
| They all were warned but
none of them listened |
| To what they should have
paid attention to the most |
| They were driven by
their greed and hunger and because they knew no better |
| Some of them never knew
what hit them at the final moment |
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| Some of them tried to
escape from what they could not |
| Some of them tried to
cling on to their trophies until the end |
| Some of them made peace
with the higher rat spirit |
| Some of them screamed as
their necks snapped |
| Some of them sampled the
bait before the end |
| Some of them wished that
they had listened |
| Some of them listened
but never understood |
| Some of them cried as
they passed over to rat heaven |
| Some of them laughed as
they passed over to rat hell |
| Some of them were
surprised that it could happen to them |
| Some of them didn’t
care anymore |
| Some of them tried to
escape right up until the end |
| None of them ever knew
what had happened |
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| Charles Lyonhart - ©
2001 |
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| “To fear death, gentlemen,
is nothing else than to think one is wise when one is
not; for it is thinking one knows what one does not know.
For no one knows whether death be not even the greatest
of blessing to man, but they fear it as if they knew that
it is the greatest of evils” |
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| Socrates 470-399 BC |
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