for an insect that loves
to gorge in its own filth,
baby maggots spawning
in bins
     fermenting on
       uneaten meat,
   and rotten juices,
   for an insect that
      "vomits" onto its food
to see it being digested
before its kaleidoscopic
eyes...
                 strange...
to see such an insect,
   then turn into an o.c.d.
parameter...
    "necessarily", if that be
the best "phrase", upkeeping
its hygiene...
3 beers in, watching this fly
on my window...
     burping like any
unihibited german might
without apology, after three
czech beers...
             (talking to a fly)
so you're basically telling me
you'll eat some ****
with your own *****...
and then spend an hour
   washing yourself?
  rubbing your stick-limbs
together, and then rubbing
your wings?
   - for an insect as degenerate
as a fly,
   ******* are really keen
on "hygiene"...
       ever notice the pollen pouches
on bees?
            yep, they're there,
on their hind skeletal extension
(pollen press) -
             looks like boxing gloves
strapped to your feet...
     cushions of concentrated pollen...
i remember feeding a dying
bee some honey...
  the last pleasure...
   out came the tongue,
  like a dog's phallus all pink
(when ******* your leg,
and i swear, that happened to me,
****** kept ******* my leg
   like a woodpecker telling
knock-knock-who's-there jokes)
      and he slurped and he slurped
that amber...
     and then he died.