This morning on the subway platform there was a dead rat on the ground by a trash can. There was a little puddle of rat blood around its little dead rat nose. I felt really sad about that rat. Rats are people too, sort of. They have central nervous systems and emotional lives. They laugh when you tickle them. They take care of each other. That rat probably ate rat poison and then died alone, hurting and afraid.
The world is hard enough already without rat poison, you know? I know they're a public health hazard and that our first responsibility is to our own species, but there's got to be a better way.
I have always admired rats.
The world is hard enough already without rat poison, you know? I know they're a public health hazard and that our first responsibility is to our own species, but there's got to be a better way.
I have always admired rats.