Short Roaches Poems

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

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Don't even think of approaching me and asking for a loan.
I'm so damned broke my roaches left home....

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Don't even think about approaching me and asking for a loan.
I'm so damned broke my roaches left home....

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Infestation dense.
Roaches crawl under the fence.
No call for offense?

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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It bugs me how
breakfast machines 
keep the roaches warm
and I wake ungrateful
stuck in this printer
getting copied...

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dinosaurs long gone..

                          humans, with bombs, there'll be none..

            roaches, billion one!...

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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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Creeping slick as silk
Crimson foxes scour the night
Like screaming banshees.

Mom and pups scatter
Like fluffy roaches fleeing
When we peek outside.

Blub......

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Garbage Bins

I recommend garbage bins outside to 
be spanked, but ...
not publicly. Why? Because 
they stink! Roaches and 
blow flies might 
uphold, defend that action of 
spanking.
...

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Time moves quickly as my heart runs freely through the darkness. As dawn approaches my feelings retreat like roaches so I may numb myself to the world and their confused emotions during long days....

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Pet droppings on upholstery
Roaches (they freak me out most preposterously)
Elevators that stall out 'tween floors unexplainably
Jello, most eighties music,  bigots, irresponsibility
Insincerity fencing for popularity...

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Hip hop lion does the jazzy mazzy lazzy dance
Shaking his petootsie like there are roaches in his pants
He has his groove on, and he is not afraid to shine.
Other lions cannot dance like this; we tell them not to whine....

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Scuttle scurry
Roaches
Askidaddle to the 
Left
Skidaddle to the 
Right.
Furious feets 
Propelling  
Gripping zip
Zero escape
Because 
Feee-fi-fo-yum
A roach soon will
Roast
Ex
    Ter
         Min
               Ate...

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I Live Among Roaches. I see them everyday.
I see them in my home. I see them on the subway.
There's even a few human cockroaches that I have known
and to be honest,
I much more prefer the company of the cockroaches I find in my home....

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Not all on earth has great allure:
 Roaches, lice, bad eggs, manure.
 On dung hills, yet, spring forth sweet flowers.
 Therefore, ye wise, employ your powers
 to see the world as one great whole,
 its fairest face, its warts, an' all....

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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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Rachel
determined, witty, shy, sensitive
sister of Joey, John, and Sydney
lover of animals, writing, and storms
who feels lost, confused, needy
who fears roaches, the dark, elevators
who would like to see ireland, the world, movies
resident of Flomaton, Alabama
Albritton...

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Constance
Sarcastic, Mother, Loyal, Friend
Daughter of Mikal and Donna
Lover of writing, music, and moonlight
Who feels love, sadness, and hope
Who fears failure, flying roaches, and lonliness
Who would like to see Ireland, Puerto Rico, and Maine
Resident of Beaumont, Texas
Gilmore...

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Tiffiny
Daughter, Sister, Friend, Listener
Sister of Tabby and Icky
Lover of music, art, and puzzles
Who feels joy, sorrow, and contentment
Who fears broken promises, failure, and roaches
Would like to see Mont Saint-Michel, Ireland, and India
Resident of No-man's Land, Florida
Hagan...

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I hate putting up with bugs,
From ants to roaches or slugs.
They all creep me out,
And some make me shout.
Life would be great without bugs.

Whether they crawl or they fly,
I wish that they would just die.
I know some are good,
And misunderstood,
But I hate them, that's no lie.

7/28/19
For Kim Rodrigues' "What's
Bugging Me" contest...

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The king of the oak mites thought 
he was all that, and was gloriously puffed up
Making the roaches laugh, and the leaves shake
Even the caterpillar queens made fun of his arrogance

The princess of the anthill got angry
She had fallen completely smitten under his self-promotion.
You are all jealous of the oak mite king, she chastised us.
We did not mention him again, to her face…....

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I can’t sleep. 
A poem by him. 

The days go by like the wind. 
Though the wind never passes. 
Wind is a cycle, one that can only be broken by our insolence. 
I can’t sleep. 
Not when the evil of I looks back to me in the mirror. 
Why can’t I see a person? 
I can only see roaches and rats feasting on this dying planet. 
Not even I can see the man in the mirror. 
I can only see a raging fire....

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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, pray they all go to hell,
And, no matter how much we spray,
It seems that roaches are here to stay?...

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i don't feel like i belong here

ill never get used to this world

or maybe this world will never get used to me

i was birthed from a generation of misunderstood women

screaming in each others ears, conveying emotions beyond what we know

raised by roaches 

fed by anger and the organs of my decaying lover

bathed in blood

and wrapped in skin

consumed by a world that can never love me
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TAKING A BREAK IN KENYA

                                                     toss my hair
                                               roaches parachute
                                                    bedward dive

                                                  lights now burn
                                              reader's paradise
                                                  all night long...

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