The Lydia Davis Project: The Mouse
(based on Lydia Davis’ short story ‘The Mouse’)
A trap for a rat
Set in the day
Clamps in the night.
Come morning we see
It lives, half-living
Half-breathing, half-dead.
Bring a hammer
Down to its face.
A gift of tranquility.
Too afraid,
So throw it out
Instead.
The mouse
Now in the cold
Stuck in a trap.
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