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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #2196546

This is the reason flyswatters were invented

Petite and delicate,
a house fly
floats
on recirculated air currents.

Its dark body--
a storm cloud on the horizon--
impregnated
with unknown pestilence.

It descends
momentarily resting
on the white lip
of a red cup.

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