| The
air is thick with bees.
Stroll prudently here. Breathe cautiously.
The danger of a loud, open-mouthed sneeze
is not so much the frenzy your explosion might provoke
as the predicament --
through deeply inhaling just before the sneeze --
of sucking in the insects' agitation,
filling one's lungs with it,
asperating the subsequent swarm of stings. |