Untouchables

Untouchables From the window at the hotel I could see the back yard as a deep canyon of fear and bins overflowing of half eaten food. It was night in the canyon a life, cruel and vile was taking center stage. A big Rattus Norvegicus was sticking her snout out of a disused drain pipe, sniffing the air it was raining slightly, which was good it kept cats away, those evil ogres adopted by humans….As Pets! She had given birth to six pink and blind babies, and could not stay away for long, other rats might find and eat them in this world that knew no compassion and life ended in violence. Quickly, yet alert, she ran to the bins found food, mostly burgers and fried potatoes. Back in the lair her babies sought nutrition and warmth; for a moment, in this world of total outcasts, there was harmony and bliss.