Function Crushed

I just smash them, he said, of unwanted
Insects in response to someone saying
That she flushed them and someone else

Replying, no she froze them, having read
Insects can survive and thrive in sewers.
I just smash them, he said, No machine

Can function crushed. There’s a question.
Is there something, any behaving thing,
That can keep on behaving crushed?

Some shapeless, hopeless, unreal soul,
Some indefatigable cockroach of longing?
Rusted thoughts twitched in the dust.