Sugar and Mice: Anti-Extermination Nursery Rhymes

[georginasand]

This week's Big Tent prompt involved taking a common pair of words (their example was love and hate) and letting one side "wander" (say, to love and hat). They cited a poem about the dangers of Love/Hat relationships (when the basis of your affection is the other persons headgear) and invited us to create our own.

My initial list of word pairs included: War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and Rhythm and Blues, but when searching for a recipe in my mother's battered Joy of Cooking, I came upon a winner: Sugar and Spice. Although the perversion to Sugar and Mice was clear, it resisted being turned into a poem. My last resort was unabashed goofiness, which morphed into three short poems extolling the virtues of vermin.

Sugar and Mice: Three Anti-Extermination Nursery Rhymes

Sugar and mice
can still be nice,
but your house will be a zoo.
Beneath the fridge
with a roach and a midge
they'll take their tea with two!

Silverfish roaming the shower
posses a unique superpower.
Your sister will scream,
but as if in a dream
she'll take only ten minutes to shower!

Insects and Spiders have many legs.
Millipedes have more than you!
They can't wear pants,
but they still love to dance.
These pests love people, too!

Be sure to head over to Big Tent to read the Love/Hat poem and the other submissions. Thanks for indulging my much needed goofiness.

I remain,
Georgie