Thursday, 3 June 2021

Cockroaches v insecticide

 #TSL PANDORATHON 31

 A cockroach' sermon to an insecticide.


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It was biology practice day

The lab assistant used heavily 

To spray the large cockroaches 

Before pining them down

In the specimen basins

Just routine for her

Thirty six large fat cockroaches 

Lying on their stomach

Waiting to be dissected

By the students 

A study of frontal nervous system

Three hours to dissect,

Draw the beasts.


The students tittered 

When they saw the cockroaches 

Pinned down,

Relaxed when they realised

The creatures were dead

By insecticide suffocation.

The hours quickly disappeared 

The surveyor came to assess

Their dissection work

She poked with the scalpel 

The central nervous system

The insect legs started

The student fainted on the spot

On this repulsive sighting 

The supervisor noted

“ with this one , no need of insecticide “.


Lucette C. Bailliet 

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