Project 1

Transcript

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The Rats of New York

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From Norway the rats came, a twitching their snouts.

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It was the seventeen hundreds, or thereabouts.

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The city was picked, to New York they declared.

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And for three hundred years, the rat population fared.

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Now the department of health, or DOMO for that matter,

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For ninety-nine years, they made the rats scatter.

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Each year their budget increases, with fresh injections of cash.

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Their department now holds.

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One hundred and seventy staff.

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Their office of pest control, is a proactive show.

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They provide rat indexing, to see where the rats go.

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The program conducts, a hundred thousand inspections per year.

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To show where the rats, are the most severe.

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Meanwhile inside and out, the rat population grew thick.

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Because the city used bags, not cans for trash, as a cost savings trick.

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With a switch, now a 90% reduction in sightings is the claim.

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DOMA went forth, spread the word, with an earnest acclaim.

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It was with presentations, pamphlets, and information channels,

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With staff and experts on community panels.