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      PAR (Paulo Acácio Ramos) posted in the group National Poetry Month

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      The Multicolored Vision of an Impossible Insect

      April 23rd opens its eyes
      in multiple colors at once.
      Not a spectrum,
      not a rainbow,
      but a fractured prism
      held together by the trembling wings
      of an insect
      that should not exist
      and yet insists on doing so.

      This creature,
      half mosquito,
      half fly,
      half something else entirely,
      hovers in the air
      like a question
      that refuses to be answered.

      It sees the world
      in impossible hues:
      greens that taste like metal,
      reds that hum like engines,
      blues that feel like fingertips
      pressing lightly
      against the back of your neck.

      April 23rd is its vision,
      its kaleidoscopic pulse,
      its dizzying way
      of stitching reality
      into a patchwork of contradictions.

      Because on this day,
      mosquitoes do fly
      but flies do not mosquito.

      This is not science.
      This is taxonomy rewritten
      by a trickster god
      with a paintbrush in one hand
      and a magnifying glass in the other.

      Mosquitoes fly
      with intention,
      with hunger,
      with the thin‑needle purpose
      of creatures that know
      exactly what they want.

      Flies, however,
      refuse to mosquito.
      They decline the invitation.
      They reject the role.
      They buzz in circles
      of pure existential freedom,
      unbothered by the rules
      that bind their winged cousins.

      April 23rd is a day
      that understands difference,
      that celebrates divergence,
      that lets each creature
      be exactly what it is
      without apology.

      The insect hovers,
      its wings a blur
      of shimmering contradictions,
      and the world beneath it
      shifts slightly,
      as if adjusting its posture
      to better receive
      this multicolored truth.

      April 23rd ends
      with a soft buzz,
      a flicker of wings,
      a final reminder
      that identity
      is a spectrum
      no taxonomy can fully hold.

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