How the Hive Works

When the ceiling starts to splinter
it only misses a few pieces
before the rest starts and stops
to believe in it, follows suit.
Why bother turning over
the altar to another piecemeal
party pooper when it is yours
for the asking, just compromise.
It's a long story
full of derring do and self righteous
hegemony, all the holidays
rolled into one sanctimonious
class action law suit
against asbestos and misspelling.
The people versus this, the people
versus that like contagions
and inflations of pygmy fainting goats
who tremble and jitter
and the tiny woolen creatures
inside our skin coming out
after a scientist with a big bright idea
tells everyone how hard
his last keepsake jammed
and mended the theory
of chance to destiny
by reworking five chemical phrases
but not the sixth because OH
isn't on the end, it's in the middle.
A whole other doctrine
he said and cupped his hands
like this to blow
on the very last horn.
They're just bees and believe me,
they aren't big enough to try.