GHETTO Worse than ravenous Suidae fled from slaughterhouse sty to poke, uproot and push America's woodland subsoil, quitting their plowed up spoil to devastate the bush, or furtive guerrilla Rodentia lately of sewers and gutters, gnawing at walls so insubstantial their passage to civilized flavor links kitchen with attic and cellar to trade their fleas and saliva for salty bread and sweet butter. Worse than teeming Muscidae, those playful flying appetites taste what we dumbly supply, from trash to uncovered bites, rank toilet to juicy confection, oily skin, greasy lips, watery eyes giving eager germs a free ride to their next infection, or surreptitious Blattidae, night-crawling the kitchen table, stovetop, cupboard, sink and radio, knife, fork, spoon, plate, cup and ladle, bureau, bed, TV or video. Worse than female Culicidae, whining to suck your blood, and feed her eggs such food to swarm like cousin fly, if injecting a certain bacillus, we shiver and sweat a fever that sooner or later may kill us, or conquering Siphonapterae, infesting their stallion rats to plague demented Europa, killer of witches and cats. As scavenger parasite hordes let Earth instill her laws they follow the food to breed and track this capital Man by his overbreeding flaw, his genius a servant of greed for power supply and demand that each hungry business grow wherever the dollars may lead to ever expanding rewards. Is ecocide part of the plan or does anyone care to know we mutate to cancerous seed in growing deserts of sand?

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