Burning Cockroaches

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    Feckless Butterfly

    feckless butterfly   flight that stuttered orange   is the new black   a dead monarch on the sand its   wings pressed flat by the unabridged tide   the dictionary of water from anemone   to zebra fish I said to you pointing   that's him that's the bastard   the one who's tiny hands fluttered   and the flutter became the headwinds   the tornados au poivre the chaos   the hurricanes that tore apart our shore   and I have butterflies in my   stomach in the twitch of my eyes, the itch   in my arms to fly the downlegs   the doglegs to visit the…

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  • Burning Cockroaches

    Rise of the Burning Cockroach

    Hawley and Shaun were cooking on their kitchen range, and a cockroach climbed out of the grease pan on fire. It ran around burning and they basically freaked out and couldn’t deal with it. It burned a long time, as apparently cockroach carapaces are made of tallow-like material. Think small, vermin spermaceti. Good news for the Apocalypse though — we can use cockroaches for candle wicks.

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