Buzz

I have three really itchy mosquito bits. And annoyingly nothing seems to be helping. Why is it that those little bugs can find the most annoying places to bit you? Sadly its as if the City gets the worst of nature. Weeds, thistles, and mosquito. You never see wild flowers volunteering themselves between the cracks in the sidewalks or in the green lots. But also all the wild animals in the city are just annoying or destructive. Squirrels are scary in the city, there are rats and mice, and the flying version of both pigeons and sparrows.

Of course I have seen some lightening bugs in the city, which is cool. And I hear crickets most nights. But that seems to be the only thing that really reminds me of summer at home. And the lightening bugs here seem to be aliens searching unable to compete with the artificial lights of the city streets. And between the sirens and the cars endlessly driving on the streets the crickets are barely heard. Even the trees are different in the city, they are like caged beasts strangely unfamiliar and very distant from their brothers and sisters in the forests. And Why? Because Man (And I mean this in the humankind sense) thinks it can do better. Man thinks it can control what is meant to be wild. Maybe I'm a country girl stuck too long in the city, or maybe I am scared of losing that sense of beauty and wonder while in a world of concrete and metal.