Short Zapper Poems

me 
being
a mere

insect
instinctively

being

taken in
by light

i find i'm

being

blind 
sided
blinded

by the light
but i must
have you
so just

fly 
into the
electric
arms of
your bug

zapper...

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one of those flies
circling round the bug zapper
like there was no tomorrow
moving closer & closer
zooming in, zooming out
oblivious to how many of its friends were just 
completely fried 
only moments ago,
and then it does itself in
mashing its very being into the machine designed to
eliminate it---
like icarus to the sun,
like a naïve little sheep
who has wandered their way into a pack of
lean & hungry 
wolves....

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