The cockroach,No matter what your approachTo assessing its heart and mind,Is an insect, you will find,Not above reproach.In fact, it is despised by the owners of kitchensAs were believers, by Christopher Hitchens,And also by experts on the lawWho regard it as a legal and moral flawFor a youth of between 15 and 29To be so utterly, unconscionably malignAs not to possess a jobWhen he might beg or borrow or robOr at least not think it rightTo be a parasiteThat entertains a beliefIn unemployment relief.And as if that were not enough,There is all this further stuffOf getting into a rage over the minimum wageWhich is so minimal it isn't even there,And that, we are told, is not fair!Rights, rights, rights, and never a duty!That’s your cockroach, the seditious cutie!So slipper it and squash it and ban it on XBefore it proliferates through the medium of s*x.The author is an economist who sometimes strays into entomology, this being a common feature of old-age unemployment.