Vermin Chronicles #2: Garrapata
Hideous hanger-on, affixed
’twixt chin and clavicle:
My own personal tick,
deposited at a river bank.
A banker, yes—sans pinstripe suit,
But a tiny capitalist for all that,
Sucking blood for a living,
dealing in odious derivatives.
This host’s foreclosed. Tweezers, please.
