OUR NEIGHBOR....ELMER

We thought we'd feed

   the little hungry birds

during this cold winter

   and we set up

a fine bird feeder

   just outside 

my "writing window"

And they came, many kinds

    of birds and were

all over the grain, big time

Wrens, sparrows, chickadees

    "orange-headed" house finches

and even a big dove, now 

    and then

And an impostor....a masquerader...

    which was not a bird at all

but he faked it...acted like one...

Now he had a tail like a mouse...

   and little ears like a mouse...

and an appetite like a mouse...

    and a shifty look like a mouse...

and he scampered like one....

Why it was Elmer, our 

    neighbor's mouse

We recognized him on sight

So BE took down our grain

   saying: "Mice are the last straw!"

"I'm not feeding no mice, no matter

if they are...

kinda cute."

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MIL

2 March 2017