It's such a mervyn peake dead rat poem morning
One of the poems ever.
Transcript:
Dead Rat
Were I a farmer I would call you vermin Because you'd be the villain of my crops And gnaw my wealth, but I am not a farmer, But only one that walks the farmers' fields, And so when I came on your stiffen'd body Lying alone and flowered with frost, your eyeballs Glazed and your little front paws so beseeching Crossed on your breast and pink like human fingers, And when I saw your deadness in the frozen Light of the winter morning, I, unmanly, Unfarmerly, and most impractically Felt that rats even have a right to live And knew that there was beauty in your body Dusted with starry marvels of bright frost, And beauty in the little hands you crossed Upon your breast before you died this morning.















