Ode Aos Ratos

Street rat
Restless creature
Tribe in frenetic proliferation
Lustful, lecherous passerby
Stomach mouth
After its share

They go in droves
Causing a ruckus
Spreading terror
From the parking lot to the living room
From the shopping center to the streets
From the sewer pipe
To the top of the skyscraper

Street rat
Aborigine of the mud
Cold snout
Soap armor
Almost comical
Grave desecrator
Survivor
Of the slaughter and the law of the land

Plunderer of the metropolis
Persistent gnawer
Of all hope
Illusion devastator
Oh my fellow man
Child of God, my brother

Rat
Rat that gnaws on clothes
That gnaws on the king of the hill's leftovers
That gnaws on the car wheel
That gnaws on the car, gnaws on the iron
That gnaws on the mud, gnaws on the hill
Rat that gnaws on the rat
Ra-rat, ra-rat
Tattered one who laughs at the tattered
Who gnaws on the rag
Of the raggedy one
Who throws a punch, pulls a tail
Wicked rat
Rat that gnaws on the rose
Gnaws on the girl's laughter
And heads up the street
On its rat route