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Monday July 6, 2026 |
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Ever get the feeling your brains have been sucked out? I think that's what happened to this magnificent dragonfly, victim (I suspect) of a wasp because a bird would have made a bigger mess; here it appeared the head had been scraped clean with mandibular precision. Must have been an ambush because I found it clinging lifelike as if it didn't know what hit it. I had my brain scooped out one tiny spoonful at a time, all the TV I watched as a child, the rot and waste of replacing a natural mind with sitcoms, blockbusters, and commercials--the lowest common denominators in a simulacrum of culture. I sympathize with this 'fly cuz I too have nothing left behind the eyes. Oh well, off to mail a record! I topped off my tires with floorpump; stiff but well under the max because the inner tubes are a little brittle. It's an old 10 speed and when I pedal the 2-lane blacktop no-hands inhaling salt air of ocean inlet, I travel back in time to when life was less cluttered and the future was more than something to be dreaded. At post office, spoke of the narrowly averted calamity of Aldrich Fire, then on the ride back I was shown the wreckage of amateur July 4th fireworks display that literally went sideways and blew a hole in this boat, sending people flying. Dragonflies live only two weeks, but it seems longer because they don't blink. Close your eyes, leave the body behind--you won't so much fly as slowly rise. |
