Rat King Lifecycle - Pyrrhon

You’re gonna begin

The way you will end

Among your brothers

You’ll grow low cunning

Stretch scrabbling limbs longer

Twitch your greedy whiskers

Make a friend of your hunger

You’ll learn to aspire, eye the climb up the ladder

Master the tunnels, subsisting on refuse

Keep tabs on your rivals, picking off the weakest

Take the old pleasures from flesh that runs slower

Gonna swim deep in the sewers

‘Cuz you’re built for oiled waters

Sometimes your coarse mind will wonder

Why the spoils ain’t sweeter

Why you can’t quell your yearning

What’s hollow in your nature

Later you’re larded, a royal weight-thrower

Nestled in your cortege of suck-ups and betas

Tails tangled up;

common filth brings you closer

Gonna go greyer, wonder why you’re so tired

Bound to your bootlickers while the flooding creeps higher

No longer seaworthy, the knotted clan’s squirming

The rain is coming down, the gutters are bleeding

No crown will spare your kind from what you’ve got coming

The final instinct will be recursive gnawing

Among your brothers