Pest Control

Pest Control

A stark similitude of will, the two of us, 

nesting tight beneath the vacant eaves

of something greater than our creeping selves,

suspended like a flaky uvula of dust 

and salivary substance. We do not ask 

for much: a corner we can call our own,

a sturdy surface off of which to hang

in full assurance of stability, a little space

to copulate. But when has similarity

of motive ever sufficiently deterred

a stronger will from sweeping clean the weaker 

one that stands in its auspicious way?

So it is with a stream of pressurized repellant

I send this prayer—let my hypocrisy be not 

the needed grounds for like extermination.