Today I released 1500 lady bugs onto my garden. Shook them
from their net bag like a salt shaker all over my plants. The little buggers
went to town on the aphids! So I sat, rolled a smoke, and watched them crawl
around getting away from each other. Spreading out. Finding out how big the
world is. And eating something other than dead brothers and sisters ain’t half
bad I imagine. Then the miraculous. One sets to fly. I see him buzzing his
wings like a boy discovering his first erection. A wondrous new feature
unfolding. Up he goes. Hovering at first. Then like an experienced pilot he
flies in a large loop around the garden, slowly spiraling upward with each
pass. The whole time I am cheering. Saying yes. Giving his voice over. “Oh my
god! You guys! You have to try this! It is so much better than I ever imagined.”
I exhale smoke and remember feeling like a bug in a mesh bag many times in my
life, and then I smile at how well I can fly now.
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