Tag: insects
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…the smell of fireworks and brimstone
An A/C unit trills as its outer case rattles under attack from storm winds. Lightening accentuates the city-scape, light-pollution infiltrates the clouds and contours their formations with a glow. Witness a cough, abbreviated with thunderclaps, situated between a breath held in anticipation of Nature’s wrath. Shirt sleeve bends at the elbow, draws in an orifice…
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Revolution. Only You Win and Now You’re the Government Everyone Hates
Decisions calibrated to a coin flip signifies humanity’s assurance in empty gestures, to fill the gap bridging choice and consequence. Illusory standards disrupt the caustic fruit fly, appearing like static in the peripheral eye-line. Murder impulse remains to remove the annoyance. (Swat) and the deed is done. A universe diluted with solo involvement, without recognition…
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A Term for the Second Coming
Centuries turn and a feline Will hide behind the couch before they die. A fly borrows spaces habituated by glaring screens To upset normal procedures Turning over Like insect eyes. His face And her smile Sought common ground To tread the turn over Greeting them Like traffic noise. Together they entered the hallway Pointed to…
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BEE-(com)-ING
1. Spectacle of becoming Situates the human vantage To ditch its predatory instincts, Linger along the gutted cubicles Inside shopping malls and Contemplate, “it’s all changing.” Insects channel the sensibilities Concurrent to currency cycles And generate populations. Marching their brood Over Dirt And concrete. Human Footsteps impose eclipses And they Ignore the sole Of a…
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In Opposition of the Bathroom Faucet
A fly landed on Howard’s bathroom sink, he noticed the insect, placed his fingers under the leaking spout and sprinkled droplets of water over the docile fly. It didn’t flinch and accepted the shower as useless happenstance, like a death-row inmate closing their eyes without a tear before lethal injection… If a person catches a…
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