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From: don@hcrvax.UUCP (Don McKillican)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: untitled
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 09:21:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 09:21:33 1985
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to my fellow apartment dwellers...


	There dwells a monster in my kitchen,
	an awful, heartless, greedy monster.

	In the dark of the early morning I arm myself
	(quietly!), furtively creep to the kitchen
	(shaking-knees), pause at the doorway,
	sweaty-hands, swallowing dry-tongued,
	heart fills my throat - NOW!
	throbbing,
	pounding,
	TURN ON THE LIGHT!!

	?

	...empty?
	the monster not here,
	my kitchen is safe for breakfast, Hooray!
	Yet still through suddenly sagging knees
	and heavy arms, I know I've won
	no lasting peace of mind; indeed tomorrow
	I needs must arm myself again.
					Oh gods!
	Spare me from the fury of the dreaded

	C O C K R O A C H !