February 21, 2013
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five bar rodent blues
Ooooh lordie you don’ know the trouble’s i seen. The common caterwaul echoes through the eaves, resounding in a chorus of similar plaints in the court of life. The sudden lapse of the dictation becomes queried by the inhale from the asthma inhaler. then a big breathe and more canter on the done me so wrong they done me so wrong. i leave, thinking that maybe i can get a better story from the rat.
rat? you say or ask? well yea the one that was experimented with the asthma medicine on to make sure that proverbial expulsion of grievous self pity can better resound with better effect. such humility i have for these animals. such incredible beauty lives in these creatures.
seems that they have gotten the rotten end of the deal.
the human mindset, wails about deeds of unfairness and wrongness. a mild inquiry usually turns up that they were expecting something and having not gotten it suddenly have this all bearing knowing of the universe. which is funny in its own way, after all wouldn’t that mean the universe revolves around humans and their deranged self rewarding sense of morality?
news to me , different topic , different day.
but rats! now rats..what about them .. well lets see..
first things first, probably the very first mammalian species on the planet earth would be a monotreme type of rat. Mammals for those that are significantly religiously challenged when it comes to truth about the universe are the starting point to what would eventually become us. yep, you see, that would explain this whole experiment on the rats to see how it works on humans thing began. sorry bub, we got a little rat in all of us.
but they have been around ever so longer then us. such incredible creatures. truly befitting for the start of the whole warmblooded types.
they have this ability that completely outdoes us, probably is the reason they have managed to stick around. they can change their whole social behavior system depending on the size of their colony. when it is a small size, they are the typical i am bigger and i can hurt you more type of pecking order. however, when they have a large colony like what you would see in a city , they ditch that. in fact , we cant even figure out conclusively how it works in this setting. we just know , it is changed and changed drastically. wouldn’t it be great if we could do that?
Any ways, back to the whiner who now is talking about how they done one single thing wrong and now they are branded for life, with the back up singers exploiting the wrongness for their own benefit.
rats, have been screwed over by something that is not even their fault. to wit, i bet if i went up to a dog , and said hey ..want some fleas? the proposed answer is probably easy to surmise. the rats, well they had mites. from china of all places. we can get lice. should we condemn the children in school getting for lice?
well , these mites gave us the plague, the church tried to capitalize on it by selling prearranged plots in their utopia, for a few family heirlooms which will be lost forever, long after the true reason for the plague is discovered. so , you can bet that would be a new stanza in the they did me wrong dept. funny i have yet to see anyone reclaim any family heirloom as a result of the exploitation of the plague. But that was long ago i hear in the back….if that was so long ago then why the hell do we think of rats as diseased and plagued?
technically it is the mites and technically the rats had nothing to do with it. not really. probably be better to blame the church for it’s inept method of dealing with pandemics. lets see, church: whip your self for punishment of sins that are being bestowed upon you by the imaginary being of your choice. thereby opening the sores to the air and making yourself and everyone more susceptible versus rats: not really a seagoing creature hitching a ride on a merchant boat because it had it’s favorite food , grain , only to be accosted by the Chinese mite and then finally find land and breaking free from the boat and running off to establish a foothold for re population.
so we have , the most amazing species of mammal. rodentii, the progenitor to everything including ourselves demonstrating what a resourceful and incredibly resilient animal it is. versus hairless apes with screwed up communication and belief systems.
rats, they got it bad. they have been the source for everything that makes your life so luxury. but do they get recognition?
the whole we are more advanced versus them crap doesn’t wash. they are primitive , which means they haven’t changed much from their original forms. it means, they didn’t have to, which means they , like a shark, are pretty much a excellent design of nature. we? well… we have to use rats to make our nature tolerable.
personally we should erect a statue for the unabashed heroism of every lab rat that existed and not worship cosmonaut monkeys that scribble nonsensical crayon on paper. it is my opinion really, they were not volunteers for the greater human good. they were caged and exploited as commodity. the worse thing is, they sell them for food for pythons. so, basically this amazing creature , who had mastered the cold and winter, to get away from giant snakes that can only live in temperate or tropical climates is now being fed to the snakes in glass cages for sicko voyeurism.
the only place they would probably meet up with one naturally on any common basis is probably in the desert. (kangaroo rats have that on a equal terms. at least it is a fair fight)
but fairness and humans when it comes to rats doesn’t seem to be the case.
so i sit by the rat, i listen to its wisdom, it knows, it really knows. i can feel it’s pain and understand its sense of the blues. i can think of no other creature that has gotten the rough end of destiny .