Coleopteran Lesson Poem by M.J. Lemon

Just this morning saw a beetle
charging at a doberman
I think the dog had managed to
step on the insect
causing the coleopteran
charge
half a league, half...
when I thought surely
the small six-legged
aggressor would
come to his senses
before

I then thought the exoskeleton
might account for the assault
a covering that
perhaps maybe
gives the one with it
a sense of invincibility
a feeling of
superman or
an indestructible tank.
There's nothing that
pierces the armour
to get to
the brain.
Without literacy
how can one so small find out
about the Titanic?

With us humans the shell
is on the inside--
hopefully most of the time--
I suspect by design
to prevent animosity
from overwhelming
our sense
of preservation
of self

But I'm sure some come to
think they have
an evolved one
a permanent one at least