Though Difficult, it is Possible to Kill Boxelder Bugs. If You are Interested, You Might try This Method

Though Difficult, it is Possible to Kill

Boxelder Bugs. If You are Interested,

You Might try This Method

 

Take two bricks.

Creep deliberately up

Behind the boxelder bug,

Being careful not to sing -

This will alert him.

 

In a graceful flowing gesture,

Something like a golf swing

Or reaching for your lover in the dark,

Gather up the boxelder bug

On the surface of the left brick

 

Bringing the right brick

At the same time firmly down

Together with the left brick.

There will be a loud crashing,

Like broken cymbals.

 

Maybe a breaking of brick, and

If you are not careful,

Your own voice rising.

When the brick dust has settled

And you have examined your own hands,

 

Carefully,

You will not see the boxelder bug.

There is a small hole in the brick

And he is exploring it,

Calmly, like a millionaire

 

In an antique shop.

 

-Bill Holm

Done