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Common vermin (especially plentiful---rats),

and in the heat of summer nights, handfuls of gnats

provide, in a dearth, sufficient blood on which to feed,

sustenance in the nourishment that you need:

until you can sink your teeth, like fierce wasps' stings,

into the throats of desired human beings.

You exist now only to pursue the perverse joy

of wreaking your will upon those you want to destroy:

sometimes a glut of them, but more often much fewer,

but all of them you want to cast into darkness as into a sewer.