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Colony Collapse Disorder

Story by Rob MacWolf on SoFurry

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#32 of poetry

I double checked just now, and according to wikipedia we still don't know what causes colony collapse disorder.

I remain convinced that it's going to turn out to be Monsanto's fault.

I hunted with the children of the sun

Who hunt the liquid gold. I saw them turn,

Like furnace sparks made flesh, to rise and run

As swift as their sun's rays that ever burn,

To take pursuit again. I saw their stores

Stuffed but to bursting with the sweet of meads.

I walked their amber palaces on floors

Of quartzite, tessellated, topaz beads.

I watched them rise in molten righteousness

Against a murderous and greedy tide.

I saw them crippled, crushed, and penniless.

I was their only mourner when they died.

For their memorial: this dross I write,

And two most noble things; sweetness and light.

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