Int. Polly's Reluctance

When she sees a swimming pool she
always expects someone to be
drowning in it     making a prosaic
     exit              would
anyone write her life down?

Isn't that it?  To have a record
of one's SELF

     There are rats everywhere now
rats and Indiana Jones     rats on
the bedroom floor at 7 AM (well, ok
that one was really a mouse)
rats in her dream about not
     wanting to go in          they
     came two to a package (I'm serious)
and were useless squishy things   useless rats
     
blind things

               They were indicating
you better get used to it
                    rats weren't so complacent
out there

rats weren't so accommodating
rats would bite your head off
if you put it on the butcher's block

Polly, who despises nothing
despises these shrink-wrapped rodents

Polly wonders if after years
of neglecting natural instinct, if
we're going to end up like useless
rats     
          what now do men hunt?

And what about women who decide never
to reproduce themselves?
               
                         What then?
Do we begin to eat each other
     and lay eggs?