Back in 2010, I posted about a story where the government was air-dropping poisoned mice into the jungles to Guam to kill off snakes.  Apparently history is repeating itself:

The upcoming mice drop is targeted to hit snakes near Guam’s sprawling Andersen Air Force Base, which is surrounded by heavy foliage and if compromised would offer the snakes a potential ticket off the island. Using helicopters, the dead neonatal mice will be dropped by hand, one by one.

At the time, I had a little ditty running through my mind, and I shared it:

Fighting Rodents from the Sky
These are mice, that have already died
100 rats will be dropped today
but only 3 win the furry beret!

The lovely and multi-talented Nancy R. took my idea and ran with it, and I must say, did a better job than I did:

Tiny hearts, still in their chests.
These were once America’s pests.
Hungry snakes went “nom, nom, nom!”
Now they’re dead, all over Guam.

No more days spent taunting cats.
No more work as small lab rats.
Best laid schemes gang aft agley,
ask mice or men who wear berets!

To the fearless snake fighters of Guam, may your endeavor meet with success.  May your mice flutter beautifully into the treetops, and may your serpentine foes meet with horrible ends.  I look forward to reports of their slithery bodies raining down from the canopy like so many scaly garden hoses.