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Poetry: Bedbugs

by H Brown

Created on: September 26, 2010

"Globalization"


from the Hamptons to the Pocanos

I speed along in my maintanance truck

with the always lively bumpedy-bump

of these dogdamn floor-washing machines

nowadays they're for counterbalance

because the cops will ESCORT a bedbug abator

and it's funny as hell that I got the idea

from a kid's game purchased at a yard sale

so just as I did the game of life I

threw those pesky instructions away

ha-ha-ha finally found a use for that silicon wafer plant

where they're quite adept at making things cold

yeah, the cold is what ya need to stop 'em

quite the hardy lil' critter, they...

well, after a mere four days from my impromptu visit

to the silicon wafer plant chief's home

and quite the idea hawk I !

see me just SWOOP right in with the solution

and that's how I learned how the fortunes are made

Ohh-ho-hoah!  I went to the butcher

and I don't need to tell you that butchers don't trust too easily

bloody meat!  bloody meat! 

...and ya got yourself a portable bedbug matrix...

...yes!  I can have a crew there by two!

you build a business up using Dr. Seus rhyme

and yes, Masterchief, another supercooled rod!

you see anymore an' it'll be free o' charge!

I stay in the hotels just like anyone else does

that service range just keeps on expanding

nationwide is not unrealistic

and with a little practice you can chill not kill

vaccuum 'em up on the lowest setting

and they wake right back up on the ride to the next hotel

globalization ya think so, eh?

these lil' bugger's 'r dug in, entrenched

a great most on this Earth simply ignore them

but I'm working hard to change all that

in their land of opportunity and fat

I am shepard of the grazing parasites

...and how I love to smile at friendly faces

everyone is always so f-r-i-e-n-d-l-y-like, it's weird

when you cryro-steam their clothes for them

and tell them it could happen to anyone...

perhaps I'll publish my own travel guide

advise 'em where them bedbugs ain't...heh, heh

what kind of fools are these

to not know a parastie when the see it?








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