There atop a steaming sewer vent, beside a murky gutter, laid a rat burrowed in a heap of filthy blankets. Its face coarse, its claws yellow from grime, its fur stained by seeping garbage bags and its tail severed....

sometimes all I want to do is sadcome-on mother fuckersput a label on thatI'm a hard workingblood sweating prickwho'll never take anyone's shitand that's the twistyou'll keep trying to figure me outalways in love with those labelsidentifying the unidentifiableI...

I have long contemplated the meaning of Maslow's Pyramid as it applies to self help. Maslow's Pyramid of needs has the basics at the bottom of the pyramid. The basics are things like food, shelter, and safety. The top...