When you sleep in the midst of rats

a night so beautifully started

can be un-night,

then you keep sleepwalking

on rat tracks,

the feces forming slippery pads.

Rats are very moveable people.

They sleep very little at night.

Rats don’t sleep at night.

And it happens to you

that the man next door

escaped the war of rats

when he took sleeping pills

and woke up in his silent coffin,

chewing away at his own lips,

crying out blood.

Life cleans up the world that way.

But why do men keep rats

in their inner rooms?

And you hear the voice reply:

It is a rat world.

You only live to keep them out

or on the way.

They like human flesh.

They are carnivores,

always busy sharpening

their claws and incisors.