A rat is not a rat unless a... «The Tunnel: Selected Poems»

A rat is not a rat unless a rat climbs out of itself and sees a rat. And even then a rat might say: I'm a Maryanne, the daughter of man.
A rat has no chance of being a rat, until the great God says, arise rat, thou art a rat; thou art come to be that which thou namest thyself after the name I give thee . . .
(Rat)