Best Roaches Poems

I went to a friend's house just the other day. And
man, I tell you that place I would not rather stay.

The roaches are bad; they take over the place. Let me 
tell you the story...it all happened this way.

When it was time to eat, I...

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It's now a month later. An invitation is sent to me; 
turning it down I reply, "Over my dead body!" 

He tells me the roaches are gone because he called 
the exterminator. I tell him, "Fine then I will see 
you a little later. 

I...

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Rats Racing Roaches


If it's a rat race
Why are all the roaches here
And How many laps

10/17/17
by James Edward Lee Sr....

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To catch a critter and insect un like no other not your friendly ladybug or caterpillar no Charlotte webs with a message written  in the middle the presentation of poverty hood gutter black nasty un speakable the shame of inviting somebody over to see...

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Ants and Roaches

How often the question
How often the ignoring
How often the reality
That as a species
We live lives
According to someone else’s purpose

Perhaps

Too many move through life 
Embracing factotum
Embracing servile doctrine
Pushing religion
Obsessing scholastic attainment
Conquering career lures

While forgetting

Fulfillment eludes man-made designs
Reliant instead on discovery
The inner being transparent

Many hold
We...

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Pitter patter on with perfect ambiguity 
Knowing only the knolls of the knave
Brave, brave sir, mam, beware
Aristotle to Aristocracy, I dare
Peasants pair and say thou prayers
The dusk-walker approaches
You are now, the forgotten little roaches...

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I ate roaches for breakfast. Chocolate covered.
He studies my eyes, hoping for a reaction, or a bit of squeamishness.
I say yum yum and lick my lips.
They were not quite cooked, he informs me.
They kept running away from the plate.
The two with their legs out.
I smile...

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If ever you should get these pest,
You will certainly have no more rest,
For they will soon began to multiply,
faster than grasshoppers or a fly.

Everywhere they will soon be,
Hiding in places you can't see,
Sneaking out at night,
Eating, and then out of sight.

What human wishes them well?
But,...

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I haven't washed my dishes or changed my cat litter,
Roaches cloud my conciousness,
Will I get roaches?
Cause once they infest you,
They're like a cancer,
Faces that don't smile,
Friends with deconstructive criticism,
Deconstructing one's sense of self,
As they infest every corner of space,
Friends come by and they see the...

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Why are theses roaches everywhere?
How did they get here?
Why should I care? 
I am a clean person yet still I share with them…
Food, water anything they want
Roaches are everywhere! 
Roaches don’t care about kids
Roaches don’t care about economic status
Roaches live within us all 
Fighting to...

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QUOTE ME BY CHAPTER AND CURSE

No, seriously there are people worse then me, and I’m a lothario and a liar
But then there are bastards who see an empty warehouse and for fun set it afire
I commit crimes and hold people I have pity for as...

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an intrusion of roaches
dines nightly on rice
i see only by daylight...

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I was outraged at the affront.
                                    It was a predictable...

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… is a drunkard
Swilling vintage regret,
Tears falling for undared dreams, 
Anger spewing over unrequited love.

… is endless replays of yesterdays
With circular insightful wisdom 
As likely to reverse life’s ills
As scrubbing dirt off hills.

… is stolen joy in the gloom
Of memory’s moldy greenhouse
Where fancied success blooms,...

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Poem title: " Unlearn what we learned"

By: Sankara/African Pen

our country was noisy with onslaught sounds/
deefening with gun astounds/
the smoke took over our nose/
and mouth like cigarette smoker 
overexpose/

Every phenomena move in opposite/
we later borrowed chicken's brain/
we were obsessed by grain of rice/
we took cigarette and...

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