So how do you like the news? I find repeatedly, irrespective of who is in office, that government disappoints me whether it is local, national, or somewhere else. Perhaps, given human nature, it is inevitable that the temptations of power and money plus the selective exposure of our politicians due to the electoral process, driven as it is by money as well as a need to satisfy disparate needs, should succeed in failing most of us. Now, at the same time that I contemplate this dilemma I am also reading the local posts about Berkeley being overrun with rats and indeed we have seen a few -- Kathleen says they are spoiled, selecting only the more tender shoots from her garden for consumption in the evening, the yard illuminated by little paper-covered multicolored hanging lights, a party atmosphere. What a far cry from the sewars. Only the finest for our rats; and on that note my thoughts merged
Some
of you may imagine the lawn full of accent plants
arranged through employment underground to
governments not knowing the rats above in the palms
where breeding takes place at a more rapid pace so
who will die first is not who lives last in the long run
long after lawns are gone the way of governments
probably chewed up by the them they will be super
with a big S on their pesticide resistant shirts and
as strong as cockroaches lifting boulders out of pits
you gotta give it to them rats often unseen yet still
in your life and yard all the time so is that why you
pay taxes thinking it keeps the lawn cut and clean
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