Here's a piece by Ian Badcoe from our last meeting, with a bit of a sting to it! Enjoy
You can't taste wasps...
...but you can taste a fig,
except you can't because the wasps are gone
and figs won't pollinate without the sting
of so-called useless insects, buzzing for good
reasons of their own. We have not shown how things
connect, how losing this will also take
some other thing, perhaps one that you love.
How it's (say) crocodiles that shove (through nine
undocumented steps) corks into wine
and how, the alpine in your window box
is indirectly charged with seeing that
your pickles keep their zing. The thing is these last
I just made up, they're unlikely... but that's
the point; we have not mapped out every link.
We don't know "this" does not connect to "that";
that cherries don't relate to vampire bats,
but they might. Losing some tiny wriggling thing
might take out something close to you, like Jane,
your daughter, who, OK she's not extinct, but all the same
she's read about the wasps,
she will not talk to you again...