Amanda Hare (27.8.06)

Exist

Twisted, crumpled, broken
Lying beneath ceilings
Running beneath floorboards
Running, hiding, darting
Ceiling above
Ceiling below
Waiting upon hangman's verdict
Stamping piston crashing
Avoid being trampled
Scramble away
Scurry! Scurry!
Poison spraycan waiting
Poison gases waiting
Looking, watching, always ready
Quickly dying-
-Living!
Morsels being scav'nged
Morsels eaten
Stamping pistons finding toughened outer layer
Crushing, smashing, smearing
Living, dying
Inside cockroach domains.

->Amanda used 2 syllables for this poem as her entry to the August Challenge.