Geckos we've known...

Well, we decided we needed an ode to the geckos who have shared our lives in Malaysia...

I'll give an Top 5 list of the geckos who have left an impression:
1. The first gecko we saw, who tried to hide in the shadow of my foot as I was walking - pronounced alive but fairly stupid, he was lucky to be spotted.
2. The one I found in the leftover water after boiling pasta the night before - pronounced drowned on discovery.
3. The little baby one we found flat in the doorframe - pronounced squished and dehydrated on discovery.
4. Prehaps the most memorable, the one who smoked up the kitchen one lunch hour - pronounced fried and toasted on discovery.
5. The one that had me convinced that there was a possessed grocery bag on the floor at 1:30am when I was trying to make tea for Miranda during her elive session (school online) - pronounced alive after I shoved the bag out the back door.
I actually was terrified it was a rat... I hope I never see a rat...

We may have a poem to post at some point to the toasted gecko, we were working from "The cremation of Sam McGee", but like many projects this one may not reach publication...