insect thoughts #4
(more than you want to hear)
on my kitchen floor in a bowl of water
lives a live tick I found it on my neck
after burning charlie’s prairie last week
don’t think it had time to bite isn’t swollen
has its mouth parts six appendages I have
studied it several times with a magnifying
glass consulted wikipedia it’s probably a
female deer tick might carry lyme plainly
can live underwater tough little bugger
seems immortal that’s no surprise – our
sapiens species will likely be extinct in a
thousand years is the prediction so insects
will inherit the earth – haven’t named it yet
while on this subject there’s a somewhat
new bug invading from the south thanks
to climate change wikipedia says its looks
will send you screaming they seem a cross
between cricket grasshopper black spider
skinny legs don’t chirp just stare at you
they like damp places they are too fast to
catch but I have trapped four in my cellar
you can buy a really sticky pad I mean
really sticky don’t touch it or you’ll be like
the man in the folktale with the sausage
on his nose only it will be on your fingers
feet you have been warned but what an
effective way to eliminate crab crickets
now about walking in woods we need a
jacket made of that gluey stuff a cap a
neckerchief will those ticks be too canny
to be fooled you’ll get everything else
though flies mosquitoes even tiny critters
it’s probably patented but worth a try
maybe they’ll pay me for a testimonial
©2016 Jacqueline Jackson
