Thursday, 2 February 2012

Poetry - One Fly

One fly, 1200 square feet

and only one fly using me as a runway

“Clear for take off" I yell

And it merely flits

Around my hands, around my face

Looking for the most annoying place to almost land

It hears "Don't land. Hover with full annoyance.

Runway full."

“Take off" I yell louder, again

They don't pay me enough in this job to take abuse

Flies don't live that long

Die already

Somewhere else

There's a nice window sill in the spare bedroom

I have, just this moment, learned that all flies are deaf

I can't kill it, I'm almost a Jain

I shouldn't be waving or yelling so I change my tactic

In my most authoritative voice with great vibrato

I yell "Clear for landing"

And the fly flies away

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