Rodentia

Story by Huskyteer on SoFurry

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#3 of Poetry

For all the small furries out there.


Tuco-tuco, marmot, mara

Guinea pig and capybara

The paca and the pacarana

With all the seeds their cheeks can garner.

Bringing fruit and other booty

Woodchuck, coypu and agouti.

Hopping dusty deserts o'er

Go the springhare and jerboa

Crossing waters dammed by beaver

Gitche Gumee, Lake Geneva

The kindly cane rat urging on

The lemming and the octodon.

Hamsters, gerbils flit their tanks

And scamper forth to join the ranks.

They all proceed by leaps and bounds

Until they reach the twilight grounds

There with mice most muscular

To dance their dance crepuscular.

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