Thursday, May 29, 2025

ANT-BURSTER


The ant keeps walking
But its head is no longer attached

A phorid fly laid an egg inside the ant’s body
The larva crawled upward

Feeding from within
Avoiding vital organs to keep the ant moving

Then it reached the neck
Ate through the muscles

And detached the head
The larva now lives inside the skull

It pupates in that hollow shell
Protected by what it destroyed

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