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I Have an Ant Problem

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I successfully conquered my cockroach problem last year but this year I have a less traumatic but nevertheless troubling problem with ants. I have had ant infestations before. They come in like good little Amazon soldier-ettes... all lined up in a row. A few scouts and guards wander about, but for the most part, they stick to the traffic plan laid out by in an invisible trail paved with pheromones laid down by the first to discover the food source. I know about this because I wrote a paper on the little critters for a biology class at city college. I call them Amazon soldier-ettes but not because there is any correlation between them and the online shopping website. No, they are Amazons from the true meaning of the word. It is an all-female civilization that marches across my kitchen counter.  Every species I've seen pretty much goes along the same pattern. The queen sits taken care of hidden away in the bowels of the colony. She is tended to and nursed by ...
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The Keeper of Time

He began that day at the same time  for as long as the past had passed  and strung out into time. For this day’s hours had arranged the same cereal, the same juice, and the same mug of coffee as it had for weeks to months and months to years. If anyone had told him that day  nothing would be the same before noon, the keeper of time would have allowed  his lips to savor the soft warmth of her cheek  once more before the cold chill of sorrow stopped all the clocks. In his regret The cereal, The juice, And The coffee Would begin in another time To be kept to himself Over, and over, and over, again. geo c. 04/28/2019
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