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A lick in my ear—

A buzzing I remember

from the moist darkness

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Damn, that is some disturbing imagery. I love it🖤

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Jeff Goldblum you stud

Why'd you go and fly yourself?

We could have been us.

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😍

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A version of this story was also released as a film in the late 1950s (less gory but just as disturbing).

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Yes, I thought of that version, too. The ending of that one definitely stays with you! 😎

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buzzing in my ears

I swat at the intruders

Too many to count

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oooo, I've never seen this movie. But this lil haiku is based on the true story of going down into the garage and seeing a SWARM OF FLIES!!! I hated that day lol

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A series of Senryu forming a gruesome, dystopian story based on HONEYGLOOM’s "the fly" and Miguel S’s "grave," in a 100 words:

𓆦𓆦𓆦𓆦𓆦

Silent city tombs

Once-bustling streets now empty

The fly reigns supreme

𓆦

Toxic clouds hover

Choking life from the planet

Except for the fly

𓆦

Graves left untended

No mourners remain to weep

The fly feasts alone

𓆦

Mutant larvae crawl

Through abandoned laboratories

Evolution's jest

𓆦

Buzzing fills the air

A swarm blocks out ashen sky

Earth's new overlords

𓆦

Underground bunkers

Last humans huddle in fear

Of the fly's domain

𓆦

Cybernetic drones

Half-fly, half-machine hunters

Seek warm flesh to assimilate

𓆦

Graveyard planet spins

Around a dying red sun

The fly adapts, thrives

𓆦

Winged harbingers swoop

Injecting eggs into hosts

Human incubators

𓆦

Hope's grave unearthed

By six-legged undertakers

The fly's world complete​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Haiku-ARIFIC!!

HOW to choose my favorite??

“Winged Harbingers swoop”

💕♥️😍

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This new proboscis

Makes my mouth like a cockscis

Romance made noxious

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Haha! That's a fun one... 😎

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I am sorry but I have to get political with this one

There is a small fly

That follows Trump around

Perhaps his conscience

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Thank you Ahaiku4U

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Thank you , Richard

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Thank you , Gloria

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“Cecilia” the Fly called.

She did not hear his tiny voice.

Swatted her love away.

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Her face when I blarged

over my breakfast told me all -

"Oh, that's disgusting?"

______

And it was, but all

my new life was disgusting

and glorious too

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Nice poster BTW - I don't remember it being so attractive back in the day

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The Fly (OG)…

Masterpiece by Vincent Price.

Truly “Horrific”…

———

That ‘Shock the Gays’ fly,

and the Cheatolini fly,

are One and the Same…

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I liked the original better...😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1958_film)

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Oh no, it's a fly,

Stronger, but much less human,

So I call shotgun.

(spoilers!)

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I watched the Fly with Jeff Goldblum with my mom when I was a kid. I still remember running across the short distance from the recliner and the couch and throwing myself in to her lap sobbing in terror when I saw the half fly half human. I've never done well with animals that aren't quite right.

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If this fly decides,

It wants your picnic food, just,

Hand it all over... 🪰😎🪰

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On the reverse side

a female cocooned heart-throb

outta my birthday cake

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