So many rats regularly lurk on a sidewalk in Brooklyn that it is the humans who avoid the rats, not the other way around. Not even cars are safe: Rats have chewed clean through engine wires.
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Rats are such a common fact
in cities that they don't attract
attention like a litterbug --
most people see 'em and just shrug.
But rats should never be pooh-poohed
because of plague they are prelude.
They gnaw through anything at all --
your engine wires, paisley shawl.
The mayor of New York has said
he wants those filthy rats all dead.
Yet somehow I don't think he'll win;
the rats that hear him simply grin.
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