How To Kill A Cockroach & Limerick For Loxolophus
By Jay Artemis Hull
Ready your preferred weapon. Shoe, newspaper, take your pick.
Fix your target in your sights. Calculate all the ways those little legs could run.
Realize its 500-million-times great grandparents looked the same.
Catch yourself wrapped in history. Catch the bug in a cup instead.
Avoid flinching. Remind yourself this skittering is the same sound its ancestors made.
Let it go outside. For added emotion: envision the giant dragonflies it used to exist with.
Wonder how many descendants there will be in another 320 million years.
Will these future babies look the same? Will your children make the same choice?
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