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One fly incredibly annoying
buzzing
darting
daring, lights, lifts,
disappears.
Invisible
transformed to sound
annoying,distasteful,distracting,
dive-bombing
swat-able
if only sound
would transmogrify
back to substance and settle—
There!
A black dot on a cinnamon roll.
But who am I to take life I can’t create?
What would Buddha do?
I eat the fly.

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    1. Enjoyed this I do recall eating or choking a fly by error was 10 at the beach pools and I got out was walking or running back to beach and had mouth open chatting and in it goes can’t recall if I swallowed it but yuk the feeling was not good

      Enjoyed your write ✍️

    2. Even Norman Bates would not kill a fly.
      It’s a funny ending, but I am not sure Buddha would eat it….he might carefully catch it and try to let it go where it might find peace. Maybe our fearless leaders could take a lesson from this. Maybe a gentle catch and release rather than all the bloody swatting.
      j.

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