the wasp in the vodka glass…

It is not moving. Using the pointed end of my pen I extract the wasp from the burgundy colored drink and put it on top of my hobonichio techno diary. I assume it is dead. The liquid is absorbed into the page. After a few seconds, half a sentence said to my partner, a longer response from her, the insect begins to move. A minute or two later the short lived wasp vanishes from sight, flying up into the air. It did not seem to be drunk from the vodka. A lovely wasp that has, like its species earned our respect. Whilst in my sense of time our encounter lasted an hour, for it our encounter lasted for eighty hours (according to its sense of time). If it has children they will live longer than me. Wasps have existed for 200 to 100 million years and as a species this amounts to eternal life…