catch & release
Body count – 6 mice dead, 7 mice released, unknown number waiting
Catch & Release
Three undead mice
see how they run
when let go
But that’s old news
not all true
Years ago
when polar vortex vectored down
the mice came in
We got two with kill traps
felt so bad and unBuddhistic
seeing broken bodies bent
our minds depressed
we went to catch release
Next three caught
took to Metro Park
city mice to country picnic
Later three more
released down in the Flats
next to train tracks
hoped they found a ticket
But now!
These!
Mutant mind mice mock us
Four catch and release traps
peanut buttered four days
no entry
just mice feces left
so we’d know they knew
Could hear their high mice laughter
Back to kill and bend and maim
Four mice dead
a fifth caught alive by leg
took it out and let it go
hope it made a mending
But last two nights
half the traps set off empty
the other half ate baitless
Little mouse turds left in laughter
This keeps up
it’s poison
– Smith, 9.2.2016
last moon rising