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We could start a Save the
Rattlesnake Association.

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[LAUGHTER]

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For my last poem tonight
I'd like to read--

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well, many of you
are students and I

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know you don't live in
first class apartments

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and I was like you too.

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I still don't live in a
first class apartment.

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And we had a lot of cockroaches.

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[APPLAUSE]

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This one is called "Roaches".

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[LAUGHTER]

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No, no, you're
thinking too hard.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Last night when I got
up to let the dog out,

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I spied a cockroach
in the bathroom

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crouched flat on
the cool porcelain.

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Delicate antennae probing
the toothpaste cap

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and feasting himself on
a gob of it in the bowl.

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I killed him with one
unprofessional blow,

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scattering arms and legs and
half his body in the sink.

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I would have no truck with
roaches, crouching like lions

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in the ledges of sewers.

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Their black eyes in the
darkness alert for tasty slime,

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breeding quickly
and without design.

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Laboring up drain pipes
through filth to the light.

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I read once they are among the
most antediluvian of creatures,

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surviving everything, and in
more primitive times thrive

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to the size of your hand.

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Yet when sinking asleep
or craning at the stars,

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I can feel their light
feet probing in my veins,

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their whiskers
nibbling the insides

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of my toes, and neck
arched feel their patients

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scrambling up the dark
tubes of my throat.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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