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Origin Tail

Imprisoned and tortured
in a pharmaceutical lab,
struck by a rogue cosmic ray,
R13666 swiftly grew
to a highly unusual size,
the wire walls of his cell,
no longer able to contain him,
burst asunder, releasing
the hugely incisored
terror of the fire-blasted
wasteland once called
Ohio, a name arbitrarily
imposed by its erstwhile
primate rulers, now
roving bands of scavengers
fleeing in abject terror
from the basso profundo
roars of their hungry
new king: Ratzilla!