The Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning is FOREBODING
And the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day yesterday was EGREGIOUS. Seeing that word, I tend to think of GREGARIOUS, which means sociable, friendly, outgoing,. However, EGREGIOUS means somewhat the opposite: obviously or noticeably bad.
As I sat at my laptop pondering what to write re: FOREBODING, a fly landed near my hand. Before I could terminate his existence he was gone. Suggesting a phrase — the first two lines of a poem, redirected from Joyce Kilmer’s “TREES”? Sure, why not? Bear with me here…
Fast Fly
I think that I shall never see
a fly that’s slow enough for me,
a boldly lingering freebooter
’til I can reach the flyswatter.
One lands, but when I blink my eye
it’s on alert and ready to fly
attuned to my egregious thought
of rendering it a bloody spot.
It seems to feel a faint foreboding
as tiny nibbles it’s uploading;
senses my unkind intention,
anticipates swift intervention
to its dining as I leave my chair
to grab the swatter hanging there.
Yet snails along, as flies are wont,
my sluggishness it seems to taunt.
I lift my swatter, all prepared
to deal with any fly that’s dared
check out my home for food un-grazed.
However, soon as hopes are raised
it will not move ’til I bring down
my swatter – such a crack resounds!
It spooks the cats but, woebegone!
that teasing fly is off and gone.
Christine's Collection 
I had a fly buzzing around my head a couple of nights ago. I’d fallen asleep with my reading light on, and this fly was having a high old time buzzing in and out of the light. I got up. Found a swatter. Spotted the fly on the curtain above my bed.
Smack! Dead.
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They seems to just love people and light, so a computer screen with a person attached is perfect. 🙂
What I hate is when I’m reading in bed and some flying critter starts buzzing around my e- reader screen. 😦
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Is there anything more annoying than that one fly that waits till you think it’s gone, only to come back again and again?
Love the poem!!
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Thank you. Most annoying when you’re all comfy in the recliner and just nodding off!
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Ugh!
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I know that feeling. I’m yet to carve my first notch on my swatter! A friend of mine has a humane device like a little vacuum cleaner that sucks them in, then lets you blow them out of the window!
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Ha! So they can come in on the next draft? I catch and release some things — actually had a hummingbird slip in the open door a few weeks back! — but I draw the line at indoor flies.
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