CHRIST MOUSE

   
   
after a week of dried paint chips 
and plastic shoe laces  
the starved little mouse  
ate the dainty aqua blue food pellets
near the big red door  
through spider webs  
behind the refrigerator  
greedily  
   
finally full  
his guts in a knot  
he keeled, hemorrhaged  
but at least he wasn't driven mad  
with hunger anymore  
although he was tormented  
with writhing and choking up bloody tidbits  
towards his final destination  
a knotting rigamortis  
   
he could still be seen  
laying flat on his back  
withered and dead  
in a suspended  
flutter frenzy  
his little claws scratching desperately  
to the heavens  
   
having dared the sin of gluttony  
he paid his penitence  
and last absolution  
for living large  
as a house mouse  
in the cruel wilds  
of a treacherous world  
on the crucifix of the human kingdom  
land of the roaming  
Godzilla's  
where solace and kindness has no quarter  
for a starved hard lived little mouse  
who died  
as providence would have it  
by Gods infinite wisdom and glory  
like a rat