By Button poetry
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Phil Kaye, performing at McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn, NY.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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in all of this
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consider the coxanellidae an insect
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who does not know the year it was born
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in
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the rule it was born under in britain
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they called it
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ladybird after the virgin mary the
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blessed
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lady who formed farmers thought sent the
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insect
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through divine intervention to protect
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their crops from aphids
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in america they called them ladybugs
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thousands of them
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shipped over to help control the native
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pests
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as a child it was the only insect i was
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told was beautiful
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it’s dotted red cape stretched out over
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umbrellas
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rain boots water bottles of course
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the insect did not know any of this the
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tiny predator
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thinks not of history only survival
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eats up to 5 000 other insects in its
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lifetime
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will eat the still living larva of its
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own kind
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when it cannot find other food once
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4.5 billion washed up dead on the shore
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scientists cannot explain why in all
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this
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consider the ladybug when people who
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look like me
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or close try and forget the year we were
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born in
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the rule we live under when i try and
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forget the year i am born in
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the rule i live under carry our
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umbrellas
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rain boots water bottles that some of us
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too arrived on this continent to
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eradicate what was already here
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believed we were sent by mary or god the
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tiny predator
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thinks not of history only survival
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when food is scarce turn
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for the softness of our own
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