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HARVEST OF RATS

  HARVEST OF RATS   The joke goes on to say That a machine was invented To catch thieves, unique it was In its application, its mode And operation, we were told Taken round many countries The world over, catching thieves In hundreds and in thousands Great success, it was astonishing But when it was brought here A bizarre thing happened The machine was stolen These stealing games, of machine And of human in electronic fraud Nine days, they say, is for the thief And one day for the owner So it was for the stealing rats Stealing from us all along They stepped on the glue trap On their pathway, a corridor To the feasting arena, a paradise They saw with their own eyes But could not enter there in  


— t. reflexion, Oct 15, 2008

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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zarul

17 years 7 months ago

Hi

This one can be a story, an astonishing children's bed-time story. although i couldn't graSP the main idea at first, but after reading it for the second time, i can see the beauty init. Nice work. SMILE ZARUL
t. reflexion

t. reflexion

17 years 7 months ago

Zarul

My friend, long time no see nor hear from you. Yes, this is a story told in parable warning those who continue to steal or commit one form of felony or the other, without any end in sight, that a day of reckoning is coming, they will be caught just like the rats. Thank you for stopping by to read and comment. Best wishes. T.