COCKROACHES: A Call for Compassion 

	Cockroaches who enc
	roach on places humans th
	ink they shouldn't app
	roach are often crushed with confidence
	or poisoned with glee

	Yet perhaps
	we should take stock -
	for someday
	more powerful beings
	might regard us as
	roachlike & scampering
	in places shouldn't be

	A little less arrogance
	and more gentleness
	helps the Great Cycle of Magnanimity

	Regarding all beings
	with com
	passion suggests
	True Distingué


Nadia:   Most humans seem to have an almost instinctive loathing of cockroaches.

Wan-Sze: It needn't be that way. They're pretty much like any creature, trying their best to survive.

Kasim:   At times I think they'll outlive humans: there's a simplicity and genius to their engineering.

Will:    Well, they have already been around for over 300 million years. It seems 
         likely they will be around much longer.


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from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields
Summary:  A conversation and pictorial poem about anthropocentric thinking, animal rights, and cockroaches.
Keywords:  animal rights, cockroaches, let live philosophy, non-harming

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2000 in Taipei, Taiwan  ☆ Finished: 2008 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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