Cockroaches (Re: "kook")

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:

 Still the phrase did not quite ring true. Perhaps
> the  latter day critics were right in finding additional not-very-intuitive
> derivations. Like the one from the 17th Century religious writer.


No, no, Mercurial Malachi shouted in pain. 
I'm not equal to the 17th Century Theologian 
and the fiftyfive subtle casuistries and 
the dirty tree and a turd jesuitical  reasons made out
to prop it up! Wait till I have a few pints in me first. 
Not now while I'm growing Wilde paradoxes in my crocodile 
shoes and alligator tears are pooling where my
Spanish eyes are smiling when the symbol of Puerto Rican Art
is a cracked Irish tea pot whistling down the wind.  I'll be
wet enough to hear your proof, be it by algebra or DNA
texting, after four muddy pints. After five,  I'll hear
anything but how Esther's child would be Virginia Woolf's
great-great 
grandmother and therefore Shakespeare's sister's ghost.

Oliver St. John Gogarty