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Jane Nash: ‘Season of the cane toad’

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I\u2019m sanitising the sideboard where I lay my paper down
I\u2019m bleaching the steps at the front and back doors
I\u2019ve got bottles of disinfectant ready for murder, if I must
I\u2019m keeping a squeaky clean house because it\u2019s the Season of the Cane Toad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I take my dog\u2019s temperature each time it comes indoors from playing
Just in case, I run random blood tests on the cats in the neighbourhood
They\u2019re quite put out but who takes much notice of a whining cat?
Only dogs who aren\u2019t too tired to chase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s their refusal to back down, sitting there
with that hang dog expression upon their already thinned lips that shits me
Bloated, up to a ruler length, they swarm the fields, the streets, the outsides of chip-shops
and pizza-joints, the back exits of hospitals, the exhaust-pipes of trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never seen a cane toad in a cane field yet.
No matter how hard I try to keep the place clean, another one will pop up,
usually in a shady corner I\u2019ve forgotten or missed.
The pacifist in me disappears and I am hell bent on their destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do they go off season?
Do they all vacation at another location?
Were they just temporarily camouflaged, or were they being
Rendered by some invisible string theory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been a long toad season,
And the poison is an ever bitter bite to taste
Thought they would go when the rains failed
But they stayed, and grew fatter in secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I\u2019ve seen reports on the news
that every country now has toads
Foreign travel has been banned
But I’m not sure whether it\u2019s for them or us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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