When Andrew had his tonsil removed
The doctors let him eat as much orange sherbet as he wanted
so he wouldn’t cough up blood.
Mom says you went to the Hamster Hospital
even though hamsters don’t have tonsils and don’t eat orange sherbet
When I got back from camp you were gone
Nothing but pellets of poo littering the cage
When I left, the cedar chips were clean smelling fresh and sharp with you, nuzzled in the toilet paper tube
napping?
you didn’t stir when I said goodbye
You’ve always been ungrateful
Rolling your pink hamster ball away from me
Tease!!! Stupid too!
So you figured out how to climb out of your cage!?
A raccoon could do that! Even a rabid one!
Only a foolish hamster would eat 8 birthday candles
but what can you expect from an animal that eats its own poo
Gluttony is a sin, Attila, they don’t want your kind in hamster heaven
I’ve moved on
did you expect me to wait for you?
she is lilly white, warm her velvety ears flop over her good eye
I don’t want another hamster, Attila!
Marcus says you died cause’ I didn’t love you
was too scared to hold you
I couldn’t if I wanted
Allergies (it wasn’t pink eye, like I told you that one time)
If you came back now I would hold you until my eyes crusted over
until my nose dripped, like your neglected water bottle
until my lungs filled with love
When I got back from camp you were gone
along with a tin of Altoids, 2 pennies, half a pencil, a bottle of White Out,
and 8 birthday candles
You have left me with nothing
nothing but a blind white rabbit, 16 birthday candles and an empty hamster cage
I am not mad that you ate the candles
I bought them for you
8 months old you were always so smart
Do they have orange sherbet in hamster heaven?
I bet you could eat it if you really wanted to
I don’t want another hamster, Atilla
