THE FRIENDLY COCKROACH
Hi there! I’m Cocky – I’m a roach…
Why do you shrink at my approach?
Why is it you don’t like me moach?
Why don’t you want me here?
I’m inexpensive to maintain:
Odd scraps; for residence a drain;
And really, it should be most plain
I’m quite a little dear!
So would some person please explain
Why everybody goes insane,
And absolutely raises Cain,
The minute I am near?
What is it that you have to gain
From causing roaches so much pain?
I’m cute and cuddly, in the main,
So why this stupid fear?
You shudder at my slightest toach,
And seem to think your food I’d poach,
As if I ever would encroach! …
Do you still want this beer? …
Why are you reaching for that shoe?
What is it that you’re going to do?
Eeeek! Aaargh! No! Please! (BANG-squish!) I’m through…
(And he’s no longer here.)
© Colonialist July 2007 (24.com blogs) October 2013 (WordPress)
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That is the first funny cockroach I encountered in my life, Col, and you squash it LOL 😉
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Oh dear. Sorry about that. I just can’t help it – they get me that way!
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I haven’t seen a roach in quite a while. I think I may have scared them all away 😉
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How cruel of you!
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Hello there, Durban Cocky Roach
I do not shrink at your approach
‘Cause roaches are just such a yawn
To me…The Parktown Prawn!
P.S I haven’t seen one here yet.
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Heehee!
Prawn or roach?
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Cute and cuddly, my foot! The only good roach is a dead one, and even then I won’t go near. 😯
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They do actually have a smooth and slinky feel to them!
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Far too much information, Col!! 😯
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Well done – I’ve got that image of Federi pointing his submachine gun at Luigi right now… 😉
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They arouse violent feelings!
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Why don’t we like ‘roaches? Because they stink!
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Depends where they’ve been …
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I just hope his friends dont find out. 😉
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And come to the funeral in hordes and hordes!
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Oh dear
😀
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So sad, wasn’t it? 🙂
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splonk!…one flat Cockie..shame he’s dead
He should have gone elsewhere instead
Then he would still be on the trot
But now he’s gawn and that the lot xxxxx
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He was such an appealing little fellow, too! 🙂
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You meant to say: appalling… 😉
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too funny!
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But not for Cocky! 🙂
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**splat**
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Sums it up in one simple sound!
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Now that is a laugh out loud poem… love it..
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Trouble is, it ended up by making even ME sorry for the cockroach!
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*shivers down my spine* I really don’t like them roaches… or their cousins known as the Parktown prawns. Its like they are roaches on steroids. 🙂
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Something about roaches, isn’t there?
Those are a kind of cricket, I think. I have a rhyme about a Parktown Prawn, too!
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Roaches, crickets, they are all the same to me. 😉 I don’t mind spiders and worms though. Looking forward to read the Parktown Prawn poem.
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Since posted!
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