<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357255" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scuttle, Scuttle, Little Roach</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SCUTTLE, scuttle, little roach— <br> How you run when I approach: <br> Up above the pantry shelf, <br> Hastening to secrete yourself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Most adventurous of vermin, <br> How I wish I could determine <br> How you spend your hours of ease, <br> Perhaps reclining on the cheese.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Cook has gone, and all is dark— <br> Then the kitchen is your park: <br> In the garbage heap that she leaves <br> Do you browse among the tea leaves?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> How delightful to suspect <br> All the places you have trekked: <br> Does your long antenna whisk its <br> Gentle tip across the biscuits?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Do you linger, little soul, <br> Drowsing in our sugar bowl? <br> Or, abandonment most utter, <br> Shake a shimmy on the butter?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Do you chant your simple tunes <br> Swimming in the baby's prunes? <br> Then, when dawn comes, do you slink <br> Homeward to the kitchen sink?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Timid roach, why be so shy? <br> We are brothers, thou and I. <br> In the midnight, like yourself, <br> I explore the pantry shelf!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Morley">Christopher Morley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357255" data-title="Scuttle, Scuttle, Little Roach de Christopher Morley" data-description="SCUTTLE, scuttle, little roach— How you run when I approach: Up above the pantry shelf, Hastening to secrete yourself. Most adventurous of vermin, How I wish I could determine How you spend your hours of ease, Perhaps reclining on ..."></div> </div> </div>

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