to stop each other dying
they denied them all a life
so lived a kind of death
that was nothing close to living
except for those imposing what
they chose to choose to be
how the living
without a living
could only live by dying
because living is just buying anyway
though all of them were dying just
to live
and what’s that, ratlings?
you’re asking what were these humans
actually good at? well, i suppose,
oh, jumping, jokes.
and genocide of course, the usual stuff
but nothing special
not that they thought so
though that was half the
problem
and honestly
i
wouldn’t gnaw those bones
if i were
you