Menacing Insects – v3

A big fat black dirigible of a fly
careening around the office
buzzed me, like a test pilot and the tower

(or maybe a latex balloon releasing its gases).
I could feel its clumsy wake

the lurch of its glide path,
Before it landed on the wall,

taunting me to strike back.

Carol said, “They’re huge this time of year,
you could almost put a saddle on them.”

I would laugh even more if it wasn’t so true.

The banter reminded me of the June Bug
that flew into the tip of my nose
last week on the walk to my car

at the end of another work day;
Leading me to laugh at a thought

of the silliest workers’ comp claim in history
When I got whiplash from the impact.

Oh what the paperwork would have been.

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edited April 17, 2015

Menacing Insects – v3

(merging edits to original and version 2)

edited August 25, 2014

Menacing Insects – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/08/menacing-insects-v2.html

August 29, 2005 12:25

Menacing Insects

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/08/menacing-insects.html

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