Scott Lewis

Flea Bag

I have taken to picking fleas off my dogs;
keeping them in a zip lock plastic bag
Crushing them would take more time;
my fingernails are bitten beyond usefulness
I get to watch them fight in little balls,
listen to them jump against the plastic
making a constant crinkling sound
I like to turn the bag clockwise;
watch the live and dead fleas rain

Scott Jardany Lewis has been featured in Thought Catalog, The Scrambler, Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter and amphibi.us and tweets at http://twitter.com/#ScottJJLewis