The stinky sewages,
The dark, the damp,
A dear domain –
Habitat to huddled hundreds;
Crouching in the cracks,
Creeping out at dark,
Walking waving its whiskers,
Examining everything around
Nibbling at the old, soiled,
Dainty damsel’s dread,
Evicting a ear piercing shriek –
When sighted,
With slippers swapped;
Or paralysed with a spray,
Tortured when turned turtle,
A lizard’s dinner delicacy,
Possessing no arsenal for attack,
Helpless, harmless,
Hit by holocaust often,
A creature called cockroach.