The brown menace, or poem to the survival of roaches

Call me / your deepest urge / toward survival / call me / and my brothers and sisters / in the sharp smell of your refusal / call me / roach and presumptuous / nightmare on your white pillow / your itch to destroy / the indestructible / part of yourself. / Call me your own determination / in the most detestable shape / you can become / friend of your image / within me / I am you / in your most deeply cherished nightmare / scuttling through the painted cracks / you create to admit me / into your kitchens / into your fearful mindnights / into your values at noon / in your most secret places / with hate / you learn to honor me / by imitation / as I alter-- / although your greedy preoccupations / through your kitchen wars / and your poisonous refusal-- / to survive. / To survive. / Survive.