Bees That Live on Human Tears

Hold a flashlight to his eye, the poem concludes:

Once I began looking for tears linked with bees, I found them everywhere. An ancient Egyptian papyrus traces the origin of bees to tears: “The god Re [the sun god also known as Ra] wept, and the tears from his eyes fell on the ground and turned into a bee. The story of bees feeding on the Taiwanese woman’s tears, which went viral, could even be read as an allegory: only when humans repent of the devastation they have wrought will the endangered pollinators return.

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