Sixty million rats
big as cats in our city,
no more space in sewers,
now they are taking over streets and parks,
no child is safe
not even in the nursery.
Rats are agile
they can chew through anything
scale walls and burrow deep.
Leave your baby alone for a few minutes
and it has no eyes, it’s brain sucked dry.
We have to fight them now
these disease ridden, sewer infested beings
or leave our city and head for the countryside,
but they will follow us there
because they see how merciless we are towards each other
and think we are their brethren.