Poem

ok so in my poetry class i had to create a poem in class based on a prompt that I received. the prompt was that I once poisoned my neighbor's pets. I actually love animals and would never even consider this but i just let my identity go and i had some fun with it. enjoy

Two cats, one mastiff, and a turtle
this was the list of my neighbor's pets.
I could stand them at first
but waking one morning to see
the dog hunched down
shitting on the end of my driveway
ended that phase of my life.
I could no longer stand nights
with those damn cat in heat.
not to mention they clawed my front door
and that dog
barking every time I came home
or a chipmunk ran by
or the wind blew for Christ's sake
So I snuck into my neighbor's house when
they wet to the post office.
The dog jumped on me and incessantly
slimmed my face.
Once the dog left me, I
found the food bowls
and distributed a sufficient dose of rat poison.
I wondered if this was an ironic way for a cat to die.
As I left, I saw the turtle.
He slowly moved his head to look at me but
then scrambled as fast as was turtily possible into his
water when one of the cats jumped onto his home
I grabbed his small aquarium and left the other
pets to their dinner
I know call the turtle "serenity"