Barney Greenway
The rats on / this earth / have nothing on you
An insect / to those which / crawl the sewers
Devourer, Plunderer, deceptor
Sniff out a / scheme / and leave the scraps behind
voracious ? Insatiate ? A nose attuned to greed
Devourer, Plunderer, deceptor
Evade all traps
And come out gnashing, snarting,
gnashing, snarting !
Disguise are many
Media palm or man in the street.
They’ll scavenge your emotions
and leave you diseased
They’d steal a last possession
and smile as you concede
Devourer, Plunderer, deceptor