Fascinating, threadbare
child of an insect
grubby no more, with your
pristine wings
translucently larger than
a glowing greenfly
you're sort-of-colourless with
a black inside
and basking silently atop a
ripple
my flesh beneath the fibrous
swathes
colourful hides my benign
insides
you rest, observed from high, from
careless aside
to careless fidget, of bustled
breezing
you've tumbled the precipice to a tenuous edge
legs like filaments catch-a
breezing
humour from your hidden faceted
eyes
so right yourself, like a complex
weeble
it's never too late to regain the
entertaining
insect friend, this lack of
animation
offends like scree - poised
deception
my digit responds
but Oh! How your clumsy
static crackling
petrified remains respond in kind
not right!
your wing drops off. Open up
that pit
shit. Beautiful creature. Dead
all along.
- Simon Huggins, 31st May 2002