A Fly Grasping Warmth While Perched On An Integrated Circuit

my feelers feel a moldy cheese wheel 
to the dented and bitten side, slapping 
pushing, thumbing down, break a chunk 
and bring close to my eyes to take 
a look. there are my brothers, they  
look hither and see my eight thousand 
eyes gazing upon squirming fatness 
in the festering fuzzy fungus sauce. 
not fit to eat or to discard, i hold 
my brothers' home and look to the wall, 
then to the floor, and to the ceiling 
so mottled and cream. just a little less 
viscous than their own abode, and  
smelling similar. they have no eyes 
or ears, but an instinct to wiggle and  
squirm. so alike are we, my brothers in  
the curdled gouda. 
  
i devoured the wheel whole, for i hungered, 

and was sated
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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April 22, 2014 at 4:57 PM
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