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I saved a bumblebee from certain death...

Sarah Dzida
Mar 22, 2023
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July, 5, 2011

I saved a bumblebee from certain death. When I went swimming today, I saw the creature struggling to stay afloat while I clung to the wall of the deep end. I tried to swish it out of the pool. The poor thing! To find itself in danger of drowning then to face tidal waves. But I got it out, and I could just *see* how its little lungs coughed out water to replace it with air. Then later that night it just seemed funny that as I walked so many skittery and flying bugs kept bouncing off my bare legs. I was like, Guys, don’t you know I’m a hero? Where IS the gratitude?

by Sarah Dzida

Author’s Note: It’s so funny how I keep finding poetry about bugs! Click this link to read some poems about spiders.

yellow bee on hand
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