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Raid Kills Bugs Dead

Posted by ESC on May 16, 2008 at 20:32

RAID KILLS BUGS DEAD - Written by Beat poet Lew Welch during a stint as an ad man. "When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse" by Ben Yagoda. Broadway Books, New York, 2007. Page 174.

(Raid is a bug spray -- http://www.killsbugsdead.com/)