a cockroach can survive a nuclear strike
but not survive being struck with a newspaper
and if i were the ghost of that cockroach
that had been taken out by a newspaper
i’d feel embarrassed!
i’d sit at the closed gates of cockroach heaven
waiting until their lunch break was over
trying to invent some heroic excuse
a war story for why i had appeared there
to not feel embarrassed!
in the garbage meadows of cockroach heaven
there are no newspapers, nor any slippers
just peace and quiet, and amazing grace
sung by veterans of the bug nuclear blitz
and none are embarrassed!
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2022
unbolt me 
Very funny poem, all praise to the cockroaches!
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I’m pouring one out right now! 😋
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Clever!!
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Thank you so much! 😀
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What a very interesting topic for a poem! 🙂
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Thank you, LuAnne! It was a lot of fun to write! 😋
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Love this.
Made me smile.
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Thank you. Job accomplished! 😄🙏
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We all get depressed about the Press, the Press that tries to impress. I wonder how many are finally pressed into Heaven by the walloping pressure of that Press ❤️
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It’s a good question. I can already think of one or two famous people that might fit that bill.
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🙂
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You have given cockroaches a place on the celebrity carpet, although being splattered by the headlines really hurts their ego.
I wonder if The Cockroach with his finger poised on the Nuclear Button really cares.
Chocolate cake left out overnight is my ideal cockroach heaven, if I was a cockroach.
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Choco-cake heaven. Now you’re talking! 😋
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Bravo! You challenges my thinking and mind.
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Aw, thanks so much! 😄
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A lament for the crocked roach.
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Ba-dum-TISH! 🤣
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Wow! I’d never thought of it that way. The power of the Press huh?
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Yes indeed! 😋
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I think embarrassment would come depending on which newspaper you were taken out by. From a British perspective, I would hate to be ended by the Daily Mail.
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Hee hee hee. I would too. 😆
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