When I was four
I looked out of the window
of our old house
in Queen Street, England,
and over the fence
poured a thousand million
wooodlice or more.
My family were playing in the yard
and were drowned.
A thousand million woodlice
in their mouths and lungs,
and I was banging on the glass
like Dustin Hoffman
screaming their names.
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