<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Roaches, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">The LAST RITES, of the ROACHES, call it, a narrative if you will, a poem, translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>These Unwelcoming Monsters</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Found Their Ways Back Under the Cups</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Ripples in the Darkness, a Glowing Cocoon</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Which Religion is, Emitting Beauty Gently</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">an infestation of ROACHES, you SEE, why people would get disgusted, don&#8217;t you???  Not my photograph&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/pestandcrittercontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cocroachinfest.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Defensive Natures, Like the Good-Natured Vermin, Begging to be Crushed</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>A Person without Love, Seeking Console</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Toes are Shiny and Wavering</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>But the Heart, Stable &amp; Steady Like a Grave</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Unwelcomed Monsters. Opening Up the Eyes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>That Reflective Glow from the Snow</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Tolerating on, Like the World</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Knowing that, There are, the Tears in One’s</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Own World. Letting it All Go, with Those Flowed Out Tears</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Thin Arms in the Eyes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">there really is, NOTHING &#8220;cute&#8221; about these insects&#8230;NOT my picture.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/generalexterminating.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/roach3.png" /></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Those Slippery Wings About to Dissipate</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Starting Off on a Life without Worries</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>May My Death, May All Our Hopes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Stay Kept in, This Same Kitchen</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Call this, the requiem of the roaches, it knows, that it won’t, escape getting killed by humans, because of its nature as a pest, and, it just, wants to, get left, where it lived…</p>
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