AI Snips
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Gentle Mouse Encounter
- Pardrego Tuma recounts gently ushering a mouse out of his kitchen without harming it.
- Seeing the mouse caring for its young changed his perception of mice.
Tender Life of Cockroaches
- Fiona Benson's poem reveals the tender and social life of cockroaches, transforming our usual disgust.
- The poem challenges us to see their care, parenting, and mortality differently.
Mortality of Cockroaches
- The poem acknowledges cockroach mortality despite their resilience and harsh risks like fumigation and predators.
- This mortality adds a poignant dimension to the poem’s tender depiction of cockroach life.