Bug Lives Matter

I live in a block of some 400 apartments. Sometimes someone complains that they saw a roach. One roach. Dear friend do you even know how roaches work?

The weather has been cool, and I have slept beside the balcony, with the door open. Sometimes a roach comes in. I say, hello friend, and then I kill it with nerve toxins in the cleanest way possible. It is an ordinary affair.

Some of us have been so distracted, that we have forgotten the true nature of beasts.

Beasts are simple. Expectations make them complicated.