it takes great skill
to fry ants--patience, precision,
the will to **** omnipotence (or)
a mighty magnifying glass
we don’t hear scorched screams
and only the most refined noses
smell the funeral pyres
some stay stone still
for their fiery executions
others scurry about
looking for their queen
as if she can save them
from our twisted wrist
that visits the sun’s
wrath upon them
while we watch
colonies ablaze,
in blissful silence
we, the ant killers
Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 10:52 PM UTC
it takes great skill
to fry ants--patience, precision,
the will to **** omnipotence (or)
a mighty magnifying glass
we don’t hear scorched screams
and only the most refined noses
smell the funeral pyres
some stay stone still
for their fiery executions
others scurry about
looking for their queen
as if she can save them
from our twisted wrist
that visits the sun’s
wrath upon them
while we watch
colonies ablaze,
in blissful silence
we, the ant killers
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