Feast Day

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Sweat bees;
Wasps that thirst only for blood;
Leeches addicted to earwax;
Phantom scarabs, lovers of late brown menstrual blood;
And aphids who never met a punctured blister oozing pus that they didn't adore --
The consumer's paradise, an all-you-can-eat buffet --
The Garden of Eden, repurposed.