The Fourth Of Eight Insects Known To Midwestern Children
4. P.O.W. FIREFLY (s.o.s.ius helplus)
Natural Habitat: Glass jars with cheesecloth coverings, home-made boxes of wood and screen.
Life Span: Overnight, unless rescued or freed (odds of the latter happening: 1 in 97,684).
Common Behavior: At first, the P.O.W. Firefly will flit about its cell nervously blinking S.O.S. signals to its wilderness friends. After a few hours, it will lose hope, lie in the corner, and die.
The light used by P.O.W. Firefly to send signals to home base is the same that gets it caught in the first place. It leads a futile and useless existence; its only discernable purpose is to further the war between humanity and the world.* The war was prolonged for two millennia because of preachers and priests spouting a terrible misinterpretaion of life - namely that the earth is a stopping ground, unimportant, and here to play victim to our victimizer.
Natural Enemies: Children’s hands, hopelessness, jars and boxes without breathable holes, ennui.
*Humanity is prone to a mistaken belief that it is separate, more soulful, and more holy than the world that birthed it. Unless, of course, the world was birthed by God speaking, in which case humanity and the world would be the same, phrases in an undecipherable alphabet made of sounds that humanity cannot imagine.
Natural Habitat: Glass jars with cheesecloth coverings, home-made boxes of wood and screen.
Life Span: Overnight, unless rescued or freed (odds of the latter happening: 1 in 97,684).
Common Behavior: At first, the P.O.W. Firefly will flit about its cell nervously blinking S.O.S. signals to its wilderness friends. After a few hours, it will lose hope, lie in the corner, and die.
The light used by P.O.W. Firefly to send signals to home base is the same that gets it caught in the first place. It leads a futile and useless existence; its only discernable purpose is to further the war between humanity and the world.* The war was prolonged for two millennia because of preachers and priests spouting a terrible misinterpretaion of life - namely that the earth is a stopping ground, unimportant, and here to play victim to our victimizer.
Natural Enemies: Children’s hands, hopelessness, jars and boxes without breathable holes, ennui.
*Humanity is prone to a mistaken belief that it is separate, more soulful, and more holy than the world that birthed it. Unless, of course, the world was birthed by God speaking, in which case humanity and the world would be the same, phrases in an undecipherable alphabet made of sounds that humanity cannot imagine.
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