Monday, November 21, 2005

Another Victim Of Chemical Warfare Comments

Rating: 3.1

How must it be to see with compound eyes:
myriad images of the same view
each with a slightly different focal length?
How can your nervous system not overload,
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Hugh Cobb
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Joseph Daly 06 December 2005

The lines about the body defying physics seem to me to be describing a bee rather than a fly. But you can't catch bees in your hand without getting into the danger of being stung. And yet, it is so obvious that this is a fly you are using as your theme. Rabbi Burns once wrote an ode to a flea, so I guess even the lowest forms of life are worth a poem.

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G. Murdock 29 November 2005

Wow! As accurate a description as any entymologist and good descriptive command of the language. I think I felt a tinge of empathy for the hapless fly....good poem say I

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