enough already

First

I saw a little black ball of fluff

with a fondness for potatoes

of all things

scurry over to the corner.

Unlike my dear friends Sandy and Susie

mice don't turn me into an acrobat.

I'll kill 'em alright

but they don't scare me.

~

Just a few minutes ago

a

scorpion

came crawling towards me

as I perched on the pot

where Lily has been just moments earlier.

Now that scared me!

'course

I didn't have any problem killin' him

either!

I considered saving his smooshed little body

to show the boys - so they'd know not to touch one

but

even dead

it gave me the heebie jeebies;

so I flushed him.