Stinkbug, Stinkbug

Stinkbug, stinkbug,
How the hell did you get in?
Why do you keep flying 'round?
What is it you want from me?
Why are you here?
Stinkbug, stinkbug
Now why are you just sitting there?
Didn't I move you out the door?
Hey, are there still more of you?
Need I even fear?

Stinkbug, stinkbug,
You thought I crushed them, didn't you?
Played the horrid Kleenix killer?
Ensured there was one less of you?
But was that my plan?
Stinkbug, stinkbug,
Isn't that unnecessary?
And an awful way to die?
Could I be a Jainist-Taoist?
Not so much a lesser man?

Stinkbug, stinkbug,
What's up with your spade-shaped body?
And your powerful woody stink?
Does it work just like a skunk's?
Make you just as bold?
Stinkbug, stinkbug,
Why are you here in wintertime?
Do you come in warmer weather?
Hang out with your insect buds?
Not only now when it's so cold?

Stinkbug, stinkbug,
Do you always love yourself?
Yet wish that you were something else?
Perhaps like Poe's bug made of gold?
Or a Monarch butterfly?
Stinkbug, stinkbug,
So what the heck should I do now?
Let you stay or make you go?
Are you in or are you out?
Will you live or will you die?


Out!
But it is nearly
spring,
and that is the important
thing.

Good luck.


DB/3.2018