March 25, 2025

Ants & Boots

I can't get a scene from the Avengers out of my mind (yes, I'm a Marvel fan!).

Anyway, when Loki (a bad guy intent on taking over the world) attacks,
  Nick Fury says, 'We have no quarrel with your people.'  

Loki responds, 'An ant has no quarrel with a boot.'

And, I can't help but see trump and musk and their crony oligarchs.
  They see us as inconsequential ants and themselves as the boot!

Anyway, Fury captures Loki in a glass cell 
  suspended 30,000 feet in the air.
  It has a trapdoor on the floor.

Fury tells Loki that if he tries to escape, 
  he will push the button opening the trap door.
  Fury points to button, smiles and says, 'Boot'.

Then, I see myself as an ant looking up at the 
  gigantic oligarch boot threatening to crush
  the life from my body as it steals my food.

And I laugh.

Because, you see, I am a red ant!
  And, I stand on an ant hill that 
  is home to millions of red ants!

And, we all know what red ants do 
  when someone steps on their ant hill!

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