What's the matter? <br /> <br />Awful! An enormous... <br /> <br />An enormous what? <br /> <br />...fly! <br /> <br />Oh. It probably came in today by the terrace door. So what? <br /> <br />So what? This is a Harlem fly. <br /> <br />Don't be silly. Flies are flies. <br /> <br />Wrong. This is a distinct species: Mosca harlemnis. <br /> <br />That's absurd. What's it doing in the bathroom, anyway? <br /> <br />Well, to paraphrase Shakespeare, copulating with my toothbrush! <br /> <br />You know I hate it when you talk about your toothbrush. <br /> <br />You don't understand. This fly is grazing in my bristles. <br /> <br />The Harlem fly is? <br /> <br />The same. <br /> <br />So? <br /> <br />So? What a thing! Don't you know what that means? <br /> <br />I'm afraid not. <br /> <br />Honey, what do flies eat for dinner? In a word? <br /> <br />Well, ah, garbage. Garbage, I guess. <br /> <br />And what do flies carry- Harlem flies beyond others? <br /> <br />Um, ca-ca. Germs. Disease. On their little pseudopods. <br /> <br />So. What if I hadn't seen it? I'd've been exposed. I'd probably waste away, then. Unaccountably. <br /> <br />And it would have been all be my fault. Honey, don't be so bourgeois. Lucky you saw it. Now, come to bed. <br /> <br />You don't understand. You know I can't just forget these things. <br />I have to mull them over- the merest scratch. You know how things stick in my mind. <br /> <br />Bother! what did....<br /><br />Morgan Michaels<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/arghh/
