A scientific analysis...
The Difference Between Bees & Wasps
A bee knocks at the door,
coughs shy and polite,
whispers its bee name,
has an afternoon snooze
after a very hard morning
playing Sergeant Wilson
to a geraniumās Mrs Pike.
A wasp smashes your window
with its buzzsaw hairdo,
spits in your kitchen,
gets pished on cider
he nicked from your fridge
(which he opened himself)
then picks fights with your family.
A bee lives high on honey
in the close company
of its bosom-buddy clan,
among branches and leaves.
Says thank you and please
and in unbusy moments
hands change to the homeless.
A wasp lives for pain ā
othersā, not its own,
it gets off on tears.
Takes pocket money off kids
to buy itself beers.
Each sting-strung knuckle
is tattooed HATE.
A bee dreams paintings
of amber haywains,
of natureās cure for all,
and of sunkissed plains.
A wasp dreams of jackboots,
goose-stepping, saluting,
of nights spent French kissing
Vladimir Putin.
Bees are:
bumbling, benign,
beatific, bewitching,
benevolent, busy
butter-balled and bonny.
Wasps are w**kers.
