One Who Eats at the Table of Another
They do not kill their hosts
Living on the host’s surface
Living inside the host’s body
Reducing their fitness
Stealing their food
Obligates completing their life cycle
Castrators diverting the host’s energy
Often close relatives
Taking advantage of interspecific interactions
Modifying host behavior
Exploiting their hosts
Sooner or later they will kill their hosts
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Parasite–bacteria–virus–worm–mosquito–flea and castrator relatives, how true you are.
Thanks!
I like this one a lot, especially how the last line ties back to the first. Very ominous. Very well done.
Thanks!
I jsut watched “Mother!” this past weekend. For m, your poem evokes the same sense of invasion, of domestic sacrifice.
Exactly!