nibbling gnawing pausing to soothe the rodent teeth working the shmooze a sewer rat surgically removes the heel callus of the street urchin, grooves the child terrors in the nightmare of pains while the visions out the night screams his dead mama's reaching skeletal limbs rat chiseling strikes the blood drinks the startling pinch, the sleeper blinks to the shadows, the phantom slinks the cold, scabies, and the pain making the five-year-old’s body convulsive quaking hiding in slum filth, the foot bleeds mingling blood the maggot feeds town eats the child, but he cannot by family and politicians, just left to rot living in alleys and dumps, uncounted exterminated secretly, by the police hunted the puss draining from the foot, now swollen limps wrapped with rags filthy and rotten from a street vendor, the silver coin stolen cobbler glue bought with the shilingi the straw in an empty juice box, inhaling, the ragamuffin eats no breakfast, smiling 1.5 10/10
A Smiling Castaway
06
Apr