Trash Animals Sonnet by Julia Keefer for the Rock Trilogy 2008-2020

Septic as spittle: your trash animals
Those invasive, feral, filthy species
Rats, roaches, Lyme ticks, bed bugs, mosquitoes
Crawl into cavities and crevices
Curdle your cuisine, cabinets, and clothes
A cacophony of bug symphony

Matrix of hellish hieroglyphics
Dance the survival of the Schistiest
Humans move with awkward alacrity
Ponderous purpose preys on your short legs
Troubled ambivalence axes axons
Cyberspace collapses meatspace

If killing species can insure your hives
Kill on: ‘til spillover slaughters all lives.