Misty Mountain Mouse
Misty
mountain mouse
Ran
into my fountain house
“Hello,”
I said
The
Queen is dead
And
Mary Poppins lives.”
The
mouse twinkled his nose
As
an innuendo for cheese
The
kind Old Mother Hubbard gives.
I
feeling funny; feeling silly
Only
asked the mouse to say please.
After
tickering on the floor
He
gave me a stare of deplore
“Mice
cannot talk –
Cloudy
clogged brain –
Mixed
up old man –
I
demand my jam!”
Finally
taking the floor board
Out
the mountain door,
“Goodbye,”
I said
“This
time is dead
But
this scene
I
will always remember”
John
Alan Conte` JR
1990-1991
Written
at
Dedicated
to my nephew Tommy
He was
around six at the time