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The Cockroach: (poetry for schools)
An elephant and a cuckoo
had been friends for many years,
then one day a cockroach
reduced them both to tears
He told them of the hardships
endured by bugs like him,
of being despised by mankind
and how he lost a limb
Being forced to live in sewers
and cellars, dark and dank
had given him rheumatism
arthritis an...
Tuesday 5th February 2019 5:38 am
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