Houstonist Haikus

A recent contest
rages from within my walls:
Who creeps me out most?


Roaches slip from first,
ceding ground to underbugs,
slithering silverfish.


Smaller, thankfully,
But weirder and creeper--
almost alien.


Distant descendants
of fossilized trilobites?
In bathrooms they dwell.


Shampoo residue
They nibble upon. And books!
Bizarre; unsettling.


In winter they thrived,
these ugly rolypolys.
Now spring they're timid

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Photo: flickr user preciouskhyatt