bee-attitudes by Rg Gregory
in the shadow of the flower is the sting
the bee driven by need uses its painful gift to keep its sense of beauty in proportion
it does its job with a thoughtless dedication its honeyed world excites no inner space
bees are not poets who wade through words with too much brain around their ankles
each itching bee-part is attuned to a cosmic web each buzz miraculous
flowers put powder on their private parts to call the bees in it seems a good game
much fumbling and the bee goes home to mother rewards ripple outwards to many dripping tongues
bees hate anything that gets in the way the bee-world is exclusive aliens - keep out
bees live on a knife-edge between honey and a ripped-out sting violation propels them
in the shadow of the nectar is the horror
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