lock up your cheese

it's a long

article on rats in the New

Yorker.

one for every person

in the city.

it talks about how they

jump ships

and 

get off at each port.

three different types.

it's how the black plague

started.

killing millions,

full of fleas

and lice.

there's nothing we can do

about it.

too much trash.

too many places to hide.

too much

food discarded on

the streets

and left behind.

they chew through walls

and wires.

they're everywhere.

just be careful

when you

go out at night, and lock

up your cheese,

please.