I Wouldn't

In the hall wall

With a small door

By the hall floor

Where the fat cat

Sits all day,

Sits that way

All day

Every day

Just to say

"Come out and play"

To the nice mice

In the mouse house

In the hall wall

With the small door

By the hall floor.

And do they

Come out and play

When the fat cat

Asks them to?

Well, would you?

By

John Ciardi