"And the meek shall inherit the earth"

I'm not going to grow up and get a job

I'm going to become a sewer rat

and eat scum

I'll grow hair all over my body

become short

and fat

a long, thin tail and tiny legs

I'll be covered with slime

and crawl along the passageways 

and sneak into your house

to eat your food

and your pet hamsters, fish, cats and dogs

I'll bite off your feet in the middle of the night

you'll have nightmares of me as you bleed to death

I'll chew holes in your ceiling on rainy nights

and in your walls to let the rodents

and cockroaches through

You'll never keep up with me

I'm too quick

your house and household will decay

until I'm better off than you

until you become one of us,

chewing away at the "civilized" world

until you, too, are sewer rats

and the echo of a growing race will

sound throughout the underground

a tunnel for you

is all that you need

and all scum are created equal

- March 19, 1984, A.D.