[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:12:27 +0900
Very nice.
John
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> THE ENEMY IS ME
>
> Here we go again,
> the annual invasion
> of the little black ants.
> They come across the border
> at the kitchen door,
> marching single file across the ceiling
> then down the wall to the counter,
> there they spread out to search and devour.
> One line coming, one line going,
> such orderliness, such discipline,
> such earnestness and mission.
> Such purpose and dedication.
> Oh, were my life half so together
> as one of these itty-bitty ones.
>
> I have forty thousand times
> more brain cells than an ant,
> (I looked it up)
> and yet I can't
> claim to know any more
> than they do, considering I
> know nothing of what they do.
> All I know is that each year at this time
> I take a spray bottle
> of Ajax Glass Cleaner With Ammonia
> and wage chemical warfare.
> Wipe them out entirely -- the whole population, no quarter given.
> They who only wanted to harvest
> a few grams of sugar,
> some morsels of this, bits of that,
> crumbs that I've left lying on the counter.
> Food for the colony, the teensy-weensy babies,
> not begged but worked for,
> long hours of laborious labor.
> I feel bad. I beg forgiveness of God, but after all,
> if ants had Ajax Glass Cleaner With Ammonia
> I'm sure they'd do the same to me.
> in a proverbial heart beat.
> Hmmm. What teeny tiny hearts
> they must have -- but not so small as mine,
> I guess.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
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