Helping the Professor
Eighty percent of all living creatures…
are females? I guessed.
The professor gave me a frown.
May I finish? He asked me.
Sure, I agreed.
But I guessed a second time.
Guessing trees.
Because they are living, right?
The scientist was irritated now.
I had apparently ruined his train of thought.
He finally spit out that eighty percent of all living things on earth are insects.
And trees, I added, knowing I was also right.
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