An Awful Cheesy Tale

"Most every poet writes of nothing but cheese."
-- a poet of chalk
 
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Here let us loll atop this wall enclosing one soiled maze
wherein a plague of crazed rats races dazed within a haze,
the rodents being bit by fleas on chasing crumbs of cheese
in having cheesy cravings yet both mild and sharp to please;
each pest, a common sewer rat or giant rat most rare,
on scurrying to somewhere scurries not to anywhere,
as quick it crawls round each red bend for crumbs at each dead end,
and crawls it quick for crumbs at each dead end round each red bend;
till sound throughout the maze at once a rhythmic squeak and snap --
while rats to nowhere race beyond the offal splattered trap.
 
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