Improv of "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump"

When David Bottoms writes "Let them crawl for all they're worth into the darkness we're headed for," it gets me thinking about what that darkness is...

Let them crawl for all they're worth
into the darkness we're headed for.
Blind, flashlight out of batteries,
power bill left unpaid
for the month.
What will stop you?

Crawl past the garbage can
overflowing banana peels and
Papa John's boxes,
(The only pizza place
taking Dining Dollars these days),
past the cigarette stub piles and
droppings of the cat from Homeward Bound.
Crawl through the tunnel between 
the dorm and the mini grocery store,
more expensive than Food Depot.
What will stop you?

Your path won't be a debris
filled street, leftover trailer bits
from Sandy's wake or the 
Adairsville tornado.
Just crawl into the darkness,
clutching to the flickering flashlight,
maybe it will hold...
maybe it will last...
What will stop you?