Dying to be slim

“Am dying to be slim”, the rat had told them. Life Itself listened in.

A rat rotund felt bereft
been bemoaning his plight
of being fat. Didn’t look left
skipped as well looking right

He stepped into traffic
met a fate most dire:
En end grisly graphic
crushed by a truck’s tire

When found at daybreak
he had been flattened slim
While friends in heartbreak
sort of happy for him

Be careful how you use hyperbole
it may just turn into reality!