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Published: 2023-05-19 16:15:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 5621; Favourites: 236; Downloads: 6
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Imagine a church where just insects go to praise God.
A Praying Mantis, a large predatory insect, makes her first (and probably last) visit to this 'insect church'.……
Ms. Mantis takes a seat upon a high-backed bench.
Close to her are butterflies, beetles, flies, and BUGS.
A grasshopper eyes the mantis's menacing front legs.
The preacher says: 'Give your church-neighbors HUGS.'
The mantis's 'hug' becomes a death trap for a fly on its right.
The poor fly soon becomes the mantis's Sunday MEAL.
The 'Lucky Ones' flee, their wings or legs churning.
Ms. Mantis will need to find another church, I do FEEL.
Bri Edwards January 2021
