Anonymous ID: 760951 July 4, 2026, 1 p.m. No.24789675   🗄️.is 🔗kun

the world be's like….

 

I crossed paths with a cockroach

And asked him to my table

I bade him, “Tell me a story,

That is, if you are able.

 

“What sorts of things are discussed

Among your peers and the like

In the days and hours

Before the earthquake strikes?

 

“Do you seek out cockroach therapy

And pour out in words your angst?

To which the doctor says, ‘I understand;

That’s two hundred dollars, thanks.’

 

“Do you charge en masse headlong

Into leveraged speculations

That make you instant millionaires

Then bankrupt entire nations?

 

“Do you defraud, betray and brutalize

Your neighbors, kin, and babies

Do you lie, cheat, steal and manipulate

To pay for that Mercedes?

 

“Do you congregate in cults

Of unconscious dread

To deny the signs of earthquakes

And decry hurricanes instead?

 

“Do you rush more eager

Into mindless, brute distractions

and spin the simplest ideas

into intellectual abstractions?

 

“Do you, in other words

Live for ‘circuses and bread’

And submit with blind devotion

To the one who keeps you fed?

 

“Tell me, won’t you please

my shiny brown friend:

Do you all lose all your marbles

just before the end?"

 

Though attentive and robust

He gave me not a clue

So I smashed him with the Times

And flushed him down the loo.

 

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