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Central Insect Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n after Lawrence<\/em><\/p>\n What brings you in so quiet ? You know that we know that you know, Fearless of highest echelon in animal chain, what is you poison Friend, did you not once give an impromptu Puzzling, the prehistoric terror you strike, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martin Ferguson<\/strong> was born in West Yorkshire in 1968.\u00a0 After graduating with a degree in Social Science, he lived in the Tanzanian bush for\u00a05 months, building health dispensaries for a British charity. He has worked as an English teacher in Istanbul,\u00a0 Montevideo, Lecce and France, where he teaches business English.\u00a0 An A to Z Art of Urban Survival, Following Diogenes of Sinope<\/em> was published by Original Plus in January: samsmiththejournal\/home\/original-plus-chapbooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Central Insect Agency after Lawrence What brings you in so quiet ? why such bright banded citrine stripes ? when did you smell the strawberries ? Is it that you destabilize us for kicks ? You know that we know that you know, that your sting is enough, we cannot miss after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19957,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions\/19957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhy such bright banded citrine stripes ?
\nwhen did you smell the strawberries ?
\nIs it that you destabilize us
\nfor kicks ?<\/p>\n
\nthat your sting is enough,
\nwe cannot miss after all,
\nthat flashing colour that ominous murmur,
\nhow can it be that you plant so much fear
\ninto those so many times your own size,
\nyou hymenopterous chorus,
\nyou jaundice jacket, you loner.
\nHow do you sense
\nwhich of us dread you most
\nas you close <\/strong>in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0jagg<\/em>ed bursts
\ntesting our radar,
\nfor whom are you working,
\nThe Central Insect Academy ?
\nYou segmented espion.<\/p>\n
\nyou unlock the animal in us,
\nwith your uninvited trespass,
\ntrained in on our elevated airspace,
\nwe grow intolerant of such harassments,
\nwe know your game yet you will
\nto outwit, you alien.
\nWhat say you we arrive
\non some common grass,\u00a0 is there a language ?
\nwill shouting suffice ?
\nor can we charm you out of it,
\na little insect dance of delicate persuasion<\/p>\n
\npredation\u00a0 ?<\/p>\n
\nobservation,\u00a0 of one of my classes
\nin Banco Centrale, Montevideo ?
\nFie on you predacious scavenger,
\nyou have come in for the take,
\nno stopping the clock\u2019s instinct
\ndriving on \u00a0your double winged endeavours,
\nsee us jump ousted from our plastic havens
\nas fiendish villain,\u00a0 you again reappear
\ndevilish, from the thunder charged magnetic air
\nsucking a baby’s invisible\u00a0vomit residue
\nfrom the hood of an old automobile,
\nyou miser.<\/p>\n
\ntrapped in the window ovens of our steel tigers,
\nhow you crazed until the dying of the light,
\nbefore lying there, a dead husk in the fibres.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n