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OPERATION RATTUS BAGDADICUS
The rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Tears off bits of the girl’s buttocks
Ripened by the Bagdad heat
But hidden until now in the rubble
Of a collapsed wall.
R. norvegicus
loves the smell
Of rotting flesh; of trousers
Soaked with piss; noses
And whiskers twitch excitedly
As they scurry to dinner.
R. norvegicus
is being a rat.
R. norvegicus
and its cousin
Rattus rattus
, more of a vegetarian,
Exhibit their Buddha natures.
They have no love of empire.
Rattus rattus
, aka the black rat,
craves destroyed granaries;
R. norvegicus
prefers bandages
Stained with blood and shit
To the patriotic verbiage
Drooling from our President’s lips.
Even a rat will not sample that.
- Bill Witherup, June 12, 2008
This first appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of Secular Humanist Press.
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