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"The American Burying Beetle"

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"The American Burying Beetle

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lives under only six states.

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With its faceted

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black and orange head,
it resembles those

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outfits in the
1920s when the tombs

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at Karnak were explored.

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The bug

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belongs to the
family Silphidae and

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the genus Necrophorus,
and during

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this awful year when
humans are upset,

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the American burying
beetle goes on at

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the brink of extinction
costing the oil

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and gas industry millions
of dollars while it

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carries the bodies
of dead creatures

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underground to lay its eggs

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on the corpses, lurching and

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arching its femurs and its tarsi

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and its geometrical bright parts

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to farm the rotting
flesh for its

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larvae to feast
on, and when they

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are ready, to fly off from.

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What

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a wonder that so much exists

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with no guile, that
existence itself

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has no rival and
goes on as the thing

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most steadily hoped for.

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When I feel

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desperate about
humans, i think of this

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worker under the six
states remaking the dead."

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