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The entomologist's
transfixing pin
permits a wriggle:

spindly legs'
reflexive twitches
don't impair
the discipline of death.

Wing-tip almost
touching wing-tip:
individual agonies
are neatly equidistant,

labeled for our
languid education.
In the next case,
cracked Etruscan vases.