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I'd left the compost bucket outside after dark, brought it in to do the dishes.
On the lip of the bucket was a big cockroach, a bushie, that dropped to the floor.
I scooped it up, popped it back in the bucket and dropped a used teabag on it.
There was an earwig in there too and a little cockroach, a German, on the lip.
I watched the roaches try to climb the slimy sides of the bucket as I washed
mugs and plates, scraping tinned corn kernels and corn chip crumbs,
then I took them out to the compost and left the bucket outside.