Fly

You were crushed like a bug under a hardback edition of Hamlet,

Never even read.

Splat.

Blood and entrails

Slipping down the window pane,

Like Chernobyl rain.

Silly fly,

Should have stayed silent.

Still,

Your own mistake—

Repeated—

You never learned.

The etiquette

= Stayed too long in the same place.

Again.- –

What did you expect to happen—

Salvation?

Fool.

You’re just an ugly bug—

A larvae,

Born to be quashed—

Not held on the back of a hand like

A butterfly—

Admired and free.

Vulnerability is for the beautiful

And the dumb,

Not for parasites like you.

Should have kept moving.

Too late now—

You’re wingless

And dead.

• Image Acknowledgement: Dallee generated
• AI Free Acknowledgement: This is my own work and has not been generated in whole or in part by AI