La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha By Elton Camp It’s not out in the cold where cockroaches hide But in warm, moist homes they prefer to reside If you’ve got them now, but never had ‘em before They may’ve arrived in a sack from the grocery store Be assured that if you see them when it is still daylight You’d be horrified if you should check during the night They will detect you and quickly scurry across the floor If you see a few, know that there are many dozens more Water’s a weekly need that makes them regularly come out They live a month without food, or somewhere thereabout Cut a cockroach’s head off and it won’t be quick to die If no mouth, it can’t drink water is the basic reason why Don’t be fooled since clean houses may have roaches too There are more in dirty ones because there’s more to chew American cockroaches reproduce at a terribly shocking rate The female need mate only once to get to the starting gate Every two or three days, the female roach will lay an egg sac And horrors, into each one, about twelve babies she will pack If, at night, you walk the kitchen floor and hear a crunch The one that you killed is representative of a larger bunch