THE SOUTHWESTERN REVIEW BLOG: Cockroaches

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Cockroaches

Flash. Bang. Dead. Done.

And they shall inherit the Earth.

I wonder if they’ll discover fire,

Think deep thoughts,

Build great cities,

And then discover war again,

Leaving monuments to an insect Ozymandias

For some traveler to find in a billion years.

By- Chris. S. Hayes, MD

Chris S. Hayes is a 1984 summa cum laude graduate of St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans with a BA in French and a subsequent graduate of Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Following a residency in Family Medicine and eleven years of private practice in Lafayette, she joined ULL Student Health Services as full time staff in 2004. She maintains a healthy interest in language study and considers fiction writing her primary means of recreation.

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