This little ditty comes from Art's novel, Okinawa Moon....taken from a real event and a really huge rat living in the B-29 bomber he was assigned to during the Korean War.
The Nosy Rat
by Arthur Oroz
The food was eaten,
But not by the crew.
Holes in the boxes,
Yet tied up like new.
I knew twas not me,
And it was not you.
So it must be the rat,
Not the B-29 crew.
We finally found him,
As huge as a cat.
Reading the plane’s log,
So cocky and fat.
Sadly we crowned him,
Hard with a mace.
Buried him deeply,
In a box lined with lace.
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