A
notice was attached to my apartment front door—
The
bug man is coming to spray his pesticide today.
Make
sure your pets are secured. The pesticide he
applies
is pet-friendly that management’s memo
claims.
And having been through this proceedure
before,
I know that 6-months from now he shall
return
once again, as the insect population will
surely
continue to proliferate throughout the annals
of
time. Any problems? he asks me as he sweeps his
lethal
wand around the baseboards of my apartment.
Not
really, I tell him. Oh, except for an occassional
water
bug now and again. Uh huh, he replies with a
cursory
smile on his way out the door. He, the bug
man,
is routinely scheduled semi-annually to apply
his
toxin around here, and I am somewhat confident,
that
he shall continue spraying in all the dark corners
long
after I am gone. And I’m willing to bet that those
pet-friendly
waterbugs will continue to outlast anything
he’s
got.
Chris
Hanch 7-20-18
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