This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2002-02-12 19:37:52 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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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)

Copyright © February 2002 Rachel F. Spinoza


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