• PapaEmeritusIII [any]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Mother, said a small tomato caterpillar to a wasp,
    why are you kissing me so hard on my back?
    You’ll see, said the industrious wasp, deftly inserting
    a package of her eggs under the small caterpillar’s skin.
    Every day the small caterpillar ate and ate the delicious
    tomato leaves. I am surely getting larger, it said to itself.
    This was a sad miscalculation. The ravenous hatched
    wasp worms were getting larger. O world, the small
    caterpillar said, you were so beautiful. I am only a small
    tomato caterpillar, made to eat the good tomato leaves.
    Now I am so tired. And I am getting even smaller. Nature
    smiled. Never mind, dear, she said. You are a lovely link
    in the great chain of being. Think how lucky it is to be born.

    “Yes, Think” by Ruth Stone