Fire

By CL Bledsoe

The ants are always hungry. They spit fire to cook their food before they bite. They are much more civilized than us; they chew each bite thoroughly. They never hide partially eaten donuts under the passenger seat out of shame. They never have to run five miles on a treadmill just to stop crying. Ants never count their legs to make sure they haven’t misplaced one; they always know by smell. They never fall into the same traps, or if they do, it doesn’t matter because there are 2000 more behind them, and ants don’t even have names to be missed.