When the Flower Beetles Flowered

I got an allergy to pollen
When the flower beetles flowered
It made me phobic about nature
So I'm feeling disempowered

I'm probably bipolar
Flower beetles are to blame
I'll spray the beetles in my garden
And love nature once again.

Leaving us to it

Where has all the nature gone?
I wonder if we blew it
What if the fishes and their flowers
Have just gone and left us to it?

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Reflecting on vermillion, shellac and cochineal

Reflecting on vermillion
Shellac and cochineal
Some very bloody history
Has been overlooked I feel

Ancient ways of making varnish
And rich red dye required
That countless scaly insects
Were crushed til they expired.