I'Ve Got A Roach Living In My Mouth So If That Grosses You Out Here's Your Fair Warning Poem by Smack Thompson

I'Ve Got A Roach Living In My Mouth So If That Grosses You Out Here's Your Fair Warning



I got a little cockroach
named
Squiggy
who lives in.a rotten cavity in my back molar
Might be a wisdom tooth but. what do I know?
I swish with listerine to keep it clean
while Squiggy jumps out
and hangs on to my uvula for dear life
I got 'em filled at the free
clinic before
mouth full of mercury_and man I love that
poisony shine!
Not this tooth though:
because well then Squiggy would be homeless too
and last I checked Roach Hotels aren't a nice place to stay
Squiggy tells me
'there was a roach uprising and
revolution and all that
but then the revolutionaries got all arrogant
and became the new rulers'
'Squiggy man' I said
'I didn't realize you had bourgeois roaches too...
we ain't too different you and I'
and Squiggy] says
'well yeah but just the same your big A-bombs
scare the hell out of me
We roaches ain't never made anything
that awful.
They say radiation won't kill me but I never
tried it and don't intend to'
Squiggy likes living in my mouth
because he eats good when I do
I've never considered talking
roaches might mean I'm insane
but -how sane can I be
in a world with an A-bomb?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Brian Purdy 03 May 2012

Well, hey, do roaches live in gardens? Really? Anywhosit, this here roach ain't real - he's a lit'rary DE-vice, ain't he? And a darn good one, too. Smack, I like the poem vurry vurry much. Do you know of Don Marquis' Archy and Mehitabel poems? If not, you might take a look. They raise a crop of giggles and sometimes dip a bit deeper into the sub-soils of our grainy little existences.

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Bulletcookie 2017 09 March 2012

Trickle down insanity, like the economics, is reaching out to all of us now. It seems that now is a time to see a dentist about removing the rotted teeth and give Squiggy a new home in a garden.

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