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                                             ACCIDENTAL BEE
                                             by Carrie Wright


You landed skillfully, beautifully natural and unnoticed, parallel parked          
//between two freckles on
my left hand.

Ten minutes earlier, I'd followed your curiosity's tractor beam, a stinging          
//yellow and black blur of
need, attracted to my cologne, hair and food. Unflinching, I invited you, a          
//dangerous new pet, to
share yogurt.  "It's okay.  You can have some."  Lifting the lid, pink with          
//cream, to your flight
path.  You stopped, accepting this, and ate.  I cooed again, "You like that?           
//You do, don't you."
Becoming heavy and sticky, you left fearing sweet death.  I had pleased          
//you and smiled.

Minutes later, a tiny pinch, like miniature lightning, shocked the hair on          
//my hand.  Drunk from
yogurt, you'd returned - a speck of an addict - tugging on my sleeve.           
//Defensively, I mashed you
away to twitch and fade in a small concrete canal.  Confused, you died on          
//your back among dried
leaves, used matches and cigarette butts.

Then, when you thought I'd forgotten, flew away not really dead.


- Carrie Wright


[Indented lines with double slashes // appearing in the text indicate that 
the line above runs farther to the right than my word processor allows.  
The line should be considered a continuation of the previous line.  The "A" 
and the "B" in "Accidental Bee" are intended by the author to be slightly 
larger than the rest of the capitalized letters.  - Ed.]


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ACCIDENTAL BEE is copyright 2001 by Carrie Wright


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