The Third Of Eight Insects Known To Midwestern Children

ETHIOPIAN FLY (povertius inescapabilicus)

The Ethiopian Fly has made its way into the minds of midwestern children through the advent of television, a box of false light that shapes itself into moving pictures erstwhile unavailable.*

Natural Habitat (other than the box of false light): Extreme poverty. The Ethiopian Fly can be found clutching onto the faces of children crying from hunger and disease.**

*The formulaic pictures appearing on this box were largely unfamiliar to both imaginations and the natural rises, climaxes, and denouments of existence prior to its inception. It is a well known fact that personal experience is more meaningful than the cheap fascimile created by the box of false light. However, exceptions may be made for the Save the Children infomercials, which introduced a generation of midwestern Americans to unforseen poverty and nations without the infamous box of false light.

** American children will not understand why the children, whose bellies are so round, are hungry.