“There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"Riders on the Storm" from the album L.A. Woman (1971).
“What navel-snipper [midwife] wiped and washed you as you squirmed about, you crack-brained creature?”
— Hipponax
τίς ὸμφαλητόμος σε τὸν διοπλῆγα
ἔψησε κἀπέλουσεν ἀσκαρίζοντα
Attributed by Aelius Herodianus (fl. 2nd c. CE), 'On Inflections'; as cited by Douglas Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 367.
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