In the words of Mary Katherine Gallagher: “I think my feelings can best be expressed by…”
("World's Most Dangerous Cheese" : I love how the marzu is surrounded by dainty roses....)
Ode to the Maggot
Brother of the blowfly
And godhead, you work magic
Over battlefields,
In slabs of bad pork
And flophouses. Yes, you
Go to the root of all things.
You are sound & mathematical.
Jesus, Christ, you're merciless
With the truth. Ontological & lustrous,
You cast spells on beggars & kings
Behind the stone door of Caesar's tomb
Or split trench in a field of ragweed.
No decree or creed can outlaw you
As you take every living thing apart. Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first.
(Not nearly grey nor moldy enough -- needs more dust, and cobwebs. )
enclosed inflorescence!
obligate mutualists!
parasitic mutualism
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Comments
Without going through you first." Rated for ontological truth.
and
Miss Havensham's cake makes
a lovely house
for a mouse.
greenheron ~ Who doesn't? And the figs and wasps keep reproducing each other, over and over.
anna1liese ~ More on heaven and earth, indeed - casu marzu, go figure.