To a Rat

rat
you are a rat
rat-tailed rat
rat-skinned rat
ratfink rat
rarefied & rat-smelling
twinkling into corners
rat-toothed snaggle-rat
lurking in the corners
rat-dropping rat
rotten in the corner
rat
yellow rat
sewer-skulking skeleton with mange-soaked fur
scurrying swagger-bones with grease-pocked fur
parasite of waste with that char-grilled fur
that cowers down low upon your rat-bent back
and shimmers in the wet between the silver and the black
rat
plague rat
house rat
house-bound rat
plague of houses plague of curses curse of houses scape-rat
tied-up rat
time-doomed rat
poison-fed rat
blood-thinned thin-skinned skin-binned rat
a worm-thin tail on an old fur hat
rat
you squat in me
spiked whiskers
internally
examining
the best of me
womb-fingering
the rest of me
rat
you sunny boy
turned subterranean
benevolently baring
your chipped canine ivory
i shall wear you as a necklace
each tooth a brown-edged bead
rat
you slurry by
slouched back turned to the light
river-shivering
flit-skittering
towards the
rat-chattering
expectation
of dough-elastic flesh
the gummy mastication
toothmarking the flesh
the rat-sign impregnation
left branded in the flesh
rat
come to my hands
attempt to bite my hands
feel the touching stranglehold
of the cupping of my hands...
got you!
rat
i shall wear you as a necklace
each tooth a gold-etched pearl
the skull
a shrunken recollection
of the child of light
who strode the earth
in the time before
the
rat