To the American Cockroach Please, come in and dont forget to invite your friends: the Brownbanded and the

Germans. Let them stay for cheese, beer, and flakes of dead skin. During the day, hide in the dark behind my refrigerator and under my floorboards to shield your thousand eyes. Turn your life into a game: starve your sideways mouth for a month, survive, if you can, two weeks without water. After that: hold your breath for forty minutes. Scuttle three miles on your six legs in less than an hour. Finally pluck off your antennae and cut off your head, But be careful: your winged thorax must stay alive for at least a week. After this, I invite you to die. And please, dont forget to take your friends.