Barney Greenway

The rats on / this earth / have nothing on you

An insect / to those which / crawl the sewers

Devourer, Plunderer, deceptor

Sniff out a / scheme / and leave the scraps behind

voracious ? Insatiate ? A nose attuned to greed

Devourer, Plunderer, deceptor

Evade all traps

And come out gnashing, snarting,

gnashing, snarting !

Disguise are many

Media palm or man in the street.

They'll scavenge your emotions

and leave you diseased

They'd steal a last possession

and smile as you concede