Gentle Roach Poem by Saiom Shriver

They shrink not from
the approach
of a gentle roach.
On the rights of the small
they will not encroach

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According to Mary Lou Henley
Danny DeVito would not allow anyone
to harm the cockroaches on the set
of Taxi. She said he convinced her to
become vegetarian.
A Terry Gross Show, perhaps Bobbie
Womack, reported that Jimmy Hendrix
would never step on a roach.
Buddhist James Coburn, reported Vegetarian World, would not harm a fly.
DPB: At my school the cockroaches could distinguish
between the killers and the nonkillers,
and they knew that they were more likely to be harmed
by people standing at a sink than
if seated on the commode.