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Yesterday I killed a cockroach, had never

  • Yesterday I killed a cockroach, had never felt so bad with myself since I became a Jainist. I felt my world crash, when I realized with horror what the slime under my shoe was

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  • it was Sid my toaster dwelling cockroach. Sid had been renting the toaster since his wife left him. He wasn't lonely through as the toaster was shared accomodation

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  • . Sid, the roach living in my toaster was bugged him wife. That's why she threw him out. His hear was squashed. His loneliness was making him want to climb the walls

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  • so he did. It was a risky thing for a roach to do since they were white & well lit, but hey, Sid was feeling suicidal. He wanted his wife to see him die. "Then she'll be sorry

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  • she told me to bug off," Sid the cockroach sniffled. Sid didn't understand his own near immortality, however. Although he put himself in full sight, he didn't know that cockroaches

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  • sometimes spontaneously metamorphosed into Josef K. This happened to Sid, in fact, as he lamented his true love's repudiation of his advances. Looking in the mirror, he realized he

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  • Was becoming a cat-monkey. He had a tail, four legs and brown fur. His hands looked human, though. His whiskers were black, as was his nose. He had a raccoon like tail as well.

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  • But he hadn't brought a freshly sharpened pencil, that would cost him. "My pencil is sharpened", he protested. "Yes", answered the Monkeycat, "but it isn't "freshly" sharpened."

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  • "What constitutes a freshly sharpened pencil?" I asked Monkeycat with undulating tones of foreboding and beigely accented graphite writing sticks.

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  • "It's one with a point so pointy that only 2 angels ould dance on its tip." With that Monkeycat regarded the matter as closed. We ate crumpets with ginger beer & then went to bed.

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2 Comments

  1. lucielucie May 13 2017 @ 07:14

    * could

  2. SlimWhitman May 13 2017 @ 08:15

    I skipped over the missing c without noticing it. I also failed to notice the asterisk.

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