The mongoose and the rat

(based on a true story)

Our picture of paradise isn’t that
you share your hotel with the rodents but,
the mongoose is a stranger to the rat.

Barbados infestation was the chat,
the quantity of pests became a glut.
Our picture of paradise isn’t that.

To India they sent a diplomat.
The Hindu folk considered him a nut;
the mongoose is a stranger to the rat.

The mongoose saw the job spec and said, 'Drat!
Won’t work the nightshift, there’s no if or but.
Our picture of paradise isn’t that.'

They could have struck them with a cricket bat
employed aggressive moggies or a mutt.
The mongoose is a stranger to the rat

One hunts his prey at noon in a sunhat
the other by the moonlight he will strut.
Our picture of paradise isn’t that.
The mongoose is a stranger to the rat.