Flies - Blogabond

If the laws of Dispersion are such that you find the highest concentration of something at its point of origin, then I know we have come very close indeed to the source of all flies. It is here in the desert south of Guerrera.

Flies on your lips
Flies in your clothes
Flies on your eyelids
And up your nose

The wax in your ears
The salt in your tears
The sweat on your brow
All fly chow now

Washing their hands
Rubbing their feet
Keeping an eye out
For fresh (white) meat

They swarm, they flurry
Fly clouds in a hurry
Quick to swoop down
On the poop you don’t bury

Cockroaches may be here
Long after man dies
But I’ll put my money
On the survival of flies

Someone call Darwin or Leakey or Goodall: I’m sure it all started here, the origin of the species.

written by

roel krabbendam on January 22, 2007 from Guerara, Algeria

from the travel blog: Harmattan

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