a shot of whiskey, a little more wine please..
I could not argue with a scorpion being a scorpion.
the way they all cling to their mother when young.
nature has resigned itself to being a monster.
just as a zebra has to be able to run within minutes of being born,
scorpions have to learn to sting.
I used to think they had doubts about their existence in their adolesence,
as I’d happen to see them crawling on the wood floors at night
with their stingers dragging along the ground,
scratching at nothing like an LP spinning with no record to play.
I watched them from the safety of my bed.
I’d rap the ground with my knuckles,
and they’d come back to their sense of being.
the tail always hooked like the letter C,
focused and motionless as the pandinus imperator moved along it’s tracks like a tank.
I could not argue with a scorpion being a scorpion,
any more than it can argue with me being me.
we were natural born enemies,
though we don’t depend on each other for sustinence
all that means then is that neither of us is afforded a natural advantage over the other.
the elephant is not scared of the mouse, nor the flea of the dog.
I steel myself and bring down my foot with a heavy stomp.
the carapace gives way with ease.
all that’s left before I know it is that little flailing tail.
swinging wildly to find it’s mark as it hits itself with it’s own sweet death.
I could not argue with a scorpion being a scorpion, as it hits me.