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Thysanura Firebrat "tiny beetle, born adult" (wretched child, tormented child) "lives in decay of city streets between cracks, wingless" left to scrounge in dens of hopelessness (wretched child, your child, war's child) "Innocent of metamorphosis Adults will molt throughout their life" god-kicked innocence roaming the street (wretched child, cold child, shivering child) "Unlike most insects, copulation is external" (wretched child, mold child, bleeding child) "Female lays her eggs on the ground in a wet Place and then the male spreads his sperm" (black lace leggings, suckling babe in lipstick) (wretched child, sold child, haunted child) "Very swift runner" (gotta go, gotta go fast, gotta hustle tormented child, go child, go child) "Lives in wet habitat, under decaying wood Inside nests or in buildings Feed mostly on decaying organic matter" battered shoes, sole shrunk, soul-shrunk huddled outside society's news (poor child, wretched child, old child) |
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