Alice’s Ramblings!

Just a gnat, yet
you make them bigger
with a big name: butterfly
bread-and-butter-fly
horse fly
and rocking-horse fly
dragonfly
and snapdragon fly

If they were to drop the name
will they be smaller?
I wonder
as I wander
through this forest
and listen to the buzzing of gnats
that whine over
their lack of dominion
despite their names so superior

My name
the best
the sweetest
the only, I know
a human -
at which all run like a fawn

Without that name
I’m nothing!

Henry Victor 04.12.2004