Rat King

rattus rattus
ich bin ein rattan konig
a museum of rat tails, rat muscus,
laugh now but one day-

joined at the tails
nice sticky shitty glue, & vomit too,
the Rat King sits on the entrails
feeds on the entrails,

the rat pack
joined at the tails
moving along the sewage pipes,
scavenging in the fields

the rat tails
intertwined
mummified
glorified
they grow together
drawing breaths
and twitchin tangled tails
til death

they huddle together
to stay warm
when it's cold, that's when a rat
will sit in its own piss and shit
when the rats try to pull apart
the knots pull tighter

if a rat king was found in the house,
the women were burned at the stake

nibble each other cuz they had to sometimes
before they learned how to walk as one
ratocracy.
chewin thru led pipe.

if a rat king was found in the house,
the women were burned at the stake.

hey watch it furface
win the rat race.
black plague, fleas on rats-
the callouses on their broken tails
showed they had been joined for quite some time.