rats

 *** rats. ***
Rats are creatures low
Low of snout and fleet of foot
Hairy as a clothing brush
Inquisitive and quick
Seek to know every entrance
Discover every secret hoard
Flourish in alleys and marketplaces
Scraps a feast of food
Build a nest and procreate
Orgies rampant without restraint
In a rat's family always more the merrier
And if not Dad might eat the young
Bright incisors slicing cannibalistically
Through offspring freshly born
Post birth control solution
A rat speciality.