Bees and Flowers, oh ... and glass paynes - 5/5/2007

The carnations in the vase are wilting. They are not meant to be kept this way. But we keep them anyway.
I know why the hunny bees are all dying--we steal their flowers and put them in glass vases' and put them behind glass windows. Force the flowers to reach for filtered sun and to breath conditioned air -- a cool breeze blowing from a vent we choose to open or close. Am I God or are you?
Poor flowers. They die from their longing, pressed against the solid, yet teasingly transparent, forcefeild we cage them in. They can see, but they cannot touch.
Poor bees. They lick the glass from the outside. They can see, but cannot taste. They cannot come in or we will swat them down, because we are afraid of what they might do to us.