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A DEFENSE OF VERMIN

By Peter Carellini



My heart weeps for shady vermin

They who scurry in pre-war nooks not caulked

And under the eyes of social climbers, dwindle

How I loathe parameters of holy and hellish!

Mores is my kinship with wretched, sad refuse -

Addicts, hustlers, whores, and lazybones

Especially naive and ugly children

Whom one would never find past gates of galas

Or, worse, forgotten in the wake of storms!

Simply because it is not cute enough!


On my watch, we will not hunt hyenas

Forced from paradise for mangy misery.

I have sat on too wine mom sofas

While toasting with six figure journeymen

Siring perfect bastards and bitches -

Listening to jerkoffs judge the jaundiced

Or liberal voters’ kinder songs of shame.


Give to me goblins and ghosts in graveyards

Where the freakish come to cavort

Where we shriek and cry and dwell in filth

And, holding claws clenched so crassly,

Destroy some foul notions in the air

That damn the innocent fuck-ups spawned

By forebearers trained to crush them

As we spit on silk of purest white

From our loving, spooky shadows!


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