Mice take over the Bundestag <br />Seeking refuge from the cold snap <br />In the country's parliament building <br />Here the mice have found a safe haven <br /> <br />Elsewhere in the city <br />More than a hundred brave hardy people <br />Enter a hole cut from the crust <br />Of Lake Oranke <br />All part of an annual tradition <br />Is this Ice-Swimming celebration <br />During the chill of an arctic wind <br />Which embraces all of Berlin <br /> <br />Meanwhile the Bundestag mice <br />Forthwith have been advised <br />To abandon their newfound haven <br />Or else face extermination <br /> <br />© Calac <br /> <br />In Berlin, even the mice were desperate to escape the cold: swarms of them have taken over the Bundestag, the country’s parliament, the daily newspaper Bild reported. <br /> <br />But more than 100 people jumped into a hole in the ice at Oranke Lake as part of an annual Berlin ice-swimming festival<br /><br />Chris Lane<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mice-take-over-the-bundestag/
