"Mousie solidarity so to speak"

for Lindsey my biographer and for the bullied everywhere I used to have imaginary friends Of the unimagined hardly any Like Mousie and her million mice behind Protecting their means preserving my ends From bullies who might stop us on the street On the way home from school or the unkind In general of which there were many She was a rubber cat toy with a bell And just in case she also had a squeak By which she spoke to my encouragement Mousie solidarity so to speak Tucked in my pocket no bully could tell Mousie went with me wherever I went A million mice behind us should we meet +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXI