Solenopsis (version 2, ChristopherSea)

[svanhoeven]

I value the effort in this. It mixes veracity verse with mirth verse in an almost cryptic way

I think the difference between the beginning and the end of the poem is a transition of scale. At the ant's scale, they're a fearsome, consuming mass, but at our scale they're usually just a nuisance, so it gets lighter at the end.

The and them clashes
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but what the hell is a garnet PSEUDOPOD doing in this poem? Shome mishsteak, shurely? Polypod if anything

When I see fire ants swarming, especially in a trail, it sometimes looks to me like an appendage of a fluid creature, such as an amoeba. The garnet pseudopod is made up of them. Though, if I have to explain then the poem has probably gone wrong.