Telling The Bees

Bee hives look pretty in the garden

humming in harmony

each community sweet 

as its honey.

But to keep them healthy,

they have to be told what’s going on

in the world around them.

And each hive must be told separately.

The bee community does not include other hives,

the other bee lives.

Honey bees are more akin to The Establishment

than to We The People, 

only caring for their own, barely tolerating the rest.

Like us they produce a Leader, 

a Queen, 

and grow her from her own own 

ordinary egg. 

Then, she is fed by Workers,

groomed by Carers,

protected by Soldiers.

It’s nurture not nature that makes her queen

and keeps her queen while she is useful.

Then they kill her and breed another

and so it goes 

on and on and on

just like with us.

They’re just like us.

That’s what I shall tell the bees.

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