#505: Ants in the Mailbox

I’ve been going to the mailbox lately
and finding ants all over everything.
The packages, envelopes, circulars,
ants just everywhere. On a couple
occasions it was dark so I didn’t know
until I got the mail into the house
and I freaked out a little bit, I did.
I spent the entire evening chasing these
bastards all over the kitchen counter
until I got them all and even then
I couldn’t be sure I wasn’t taking
them upstairs to bed with me at night.
I don’t know what they’re finding in the mail;
But I must be rid of them; I cannot fail.



Published by michaeljarmer

I'm a retired public high school English teacher, fiction writer, poet, and musician in Portland, Oregon

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