Ode to a Bumble Bee

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Set the poor mite free

He could be Dozy

He's definitely not Mitch

He's got a pollinating itch

So let him fly

through his solar eclipse

with rejuvenated glee


Give him orange, Vitamin C

Give him yellow, Vitamin D

Give him red, Vitamin B

Give him green, go and Vitamin E


He's just a poor little bumble bee

He's very lonely can't you see?

He's forgotten to pay

Nature's membership fee

Mourned for unconditionally

Just as important as a flea

Both equally as special

in their own way


More important than man

Man and nature

represents the unrestrained

advance of doom

and costly technology


The poor mite

is no longer free

The excuse for global warming

is whatever society

wants it to be


Don't forget the march

of chemical pesticides

Look back in history

Remember The Silent Spring

and the shell thinning effects

of DDT


So what about

the beautiful

poor little might

of the bumble bee?


What will become of floral pollination?

What will become of nature's

global domination?

Will nature and man

become one nation?

Will we rise above

Capitalistic greed

and it's markets,

The City

and it's financial belief

and class station?


Third, Second and/or First Class

Nature and the bumble bee

hold the key to life

Man, not the bumble bee and nature

is the one who's undeniably crass


Where will the story end?

Will the next bumble bee you see

be your first

or with ultimate finality

your last?

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