Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

Odyssey of a Locust

    bulbous eyes
    bulging chest
    perched on my screen
      the ugliest thing
      I’d ever seen  

    beat its wings abruptly
    buzzing robustly
      flew away 
      hamburger for highway
        ~ odyssey’s finale

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Suzanne Delaney August 15, 2024 at 6:08 AM They grow and shed their complete shell like a snake to accommodate their body. I have found empty shells still clinging to a tree trunks SuZ Gershon Wolf August 15, 2024 at 7:07 PM Never thought of that angle, Suzanne: Locusts and snakes // Go together like mudpies and mudcakes!

John Lawless August 15, 2024 at 6:04 AM as kids we used to catch "grasshoppers". Haven't seen any around in decades...and the cities pigeon population has been greatly reduced by the influx of high rise dwelling hawks....ah well, nature will adapt Gershon Wolf August 15, 2024 at 7:06 PM Yes. Nature will adapt... unlike the crazed left-wing loonies, whom climate change has completely unhinged...