In other words ants will eat crumbs regardless of metaphorical value ants will eat crumbs that is to say if put in the position or given the opportunity in the big hunt with thumping hooves and long eared dogs for fetching the dead with bugles and rifles resounding red on the hills into the soil behind them regardless of ornate practice if I use Brits and foxes to illustrate how ants will eat where there are ants they will eat what they can carry a dollar in quarters Icarus wax baby shoes worn thin by grandmother hopefuls there are ants in One Hundred Years of Solitude in other words there are ants regardless
All Poems © by Egil Dennerline, 2004