American Bullfrogs and Brown Tree Snakes

A foot-long pound of bullfrog.
A power outage of snakes.
These are expensive problems.

Controlling these animals
In the gardens of humans
Has cost governments billions.

How’s that for real toads in them?
We’re kidding. It’s serious.
Species where you don’t want them

Eating species that you want.
If nothing else, you’re the first
Tragicomic extinction

Event, the first turnover
That’s self-evaluating.
Imagine if frogs and snakes

Themselves offered assessments.
Would they point out they’re doing
What living things do, eating

And breeding, overrunning
Everything until something
Overruns them? Would they weep

For the right to be greedy,
Angry as communities
Of loggers or fishing boats?

Well, nobody’s asking them.
It would be just like this world,
Though, to snuff you before them.