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Ladies and Gentlemen - The Beetles!

As Ed Sullivan did not exactly say

 

As in BEETLES! An acre of ‘em around the light

Struggling upside down throughout the night

Helpless, unable to turn themselves upright

And before the dawn, a possum’s delicious delight!

 

 

 

June bugs, June beetles, May beetles, scarab beetles, and other names. Opossums / ‘possums devour them when they are helpless on the ground or pavement. ‘Possums also devour snakes, dead animals, **** and fleas. They are immune to snake bites, and **** fleas by attracting them and then eating them. ‘Possums are not pretty but they are most useful and should not be harmed.

 

Clever Nat wrote this response; I don't know how to add it to my site so I simply pasted it here:

 

nat-lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

75/M/Krakow-Hamburg-NYC

Tout d'abord, explore-toi toi-mme le monde que tu connais le mieux. Advisory: an acquired taste; [email protected]; when my hands no longer respect my wishes, I will dictate my poems; when my heart tick tocks not, will still be writing through yours

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Apr 23, 2026 at 9:12 AM CDT

nat-lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

75/M/Krakow-Hamburg-NYC

Tout d'abord, explore-toi toi-mme le monde que tu connais le mieux. Advisory: an acquired taste; [email protected]; when my hands no longer respect my wishes, I will dictate my poems; when my heart tick tocks not, will still be writing through yours

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Poets are quite useful and should not be harmed

Poets are quite useful and should not be harmed

per the Per-con-fessor (silent H)y’all, M.A., BS (not a degreee)

 

like the opossum,

a frightfully excellent scavenger

of nature’s successful (s)excesses,

should not vacuumed up, intoxicated, sprayed or

splayed with harsh chemicales, less their output

‘die on the vine’ (or summertime hammock)

 

let them create,

let them pro~create,(oh yeah)

let them be et,

juicy and delicioso

 

speaking from very personal know-(less)dge

while the species is no current danger

of being eradicat[et],

there are editors, propagandists, censors and sneering

sensors, A-holes, B-holes and M-holes,

even T-holes & Z-holes,

ready willing enable

to remove all poems

from the general lexicon

of human possessions

(and poets into giant pre-fabulous custom built warehouses)

 

i therefore encourage

you to start this date,

by kissing your fav po-et,

and thus strongly encourage,

hims and hers, to out-put put-out

 

suggest

you start with me,

as a test pest case

and not Thomas Case,

who gets plenty affection

7:53am 4/2 3 /2 0 2 6

#poets

#quite

#useful

#should

#not

#be

#harmed

#nat

#lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

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nat-lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

nat-lipstadt

75/M/Krakow-Hamburg-NYC

Tout d'abord, explore-toi toi-mme le monde que tu connais le mieux. Advisory: an acquired taste; [email protected]; when my hands no longer respect my wishes, I will dictate my poems; when my heart tick tocks not, will still be writing through yours

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75/M/Krakow-Hamburg-NYC

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

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Ladies and Gentlemen – The Beetles!

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