Even More Cicada Haiku
Cicada Haiku #64
They eat some fungus
that makes them hallucinate
and their butts fall off.
Cicada Haiku #65
Butts literally
falling off due to fungus.
I mean what the hell?
Cicada Haiku #66
When it’s hot they pee.
it is known as honeydew.
I’m wearing a hat.
Cicada Haiku #67
They really do pee.
I’m not making this shit up.
It feels like rain drops.
Cicada Haiku #68
When they pee on you
it’s high in sugar content
and it is sticky.
Cicada Haiku #69
They’re not just Brood X.
There are more than three thousand
species in the world.
Cicada Haiku #70
They think you’re a tree
but cannot lay eggs on you.
Well at least there’s that!
Cicada Haiku #71
It’s only the males
that sing at the volume of
Harley Davidsons.
Cicada Haiku #72
Females are sometimes
attracted to the sound of
lawnmower engines.
Cicada Haiku #73
When they are babies
they jump off of tree branches
and then start to dig.
Cicada Haiku #74
They have red eyeballs.
A small number of them don’t.
Those have blue eyeballs.
Cicada Haiku #75
They aerate the soil
when they emerge to mutate
into adult bugs.
Cicada Haiku #76
There are some huge wasps
known as cicada killers.
They are my heroes.
Cicada Haiku #77
They hatch earlier
in the year these days due to
the changing climate.
Cicada Haiku #78
Played a gig outside.
Drummer had one on his head
and on his drums too.
Cicada Haiku #79
They have two red eyes.
But they have three more also.
Five eyes in total.
Cicada Haiku #80
Seventeen years and
thirteen years are prime numbers.
They’re mathematicians.
Cicada Haiku #81
They sure make a mess
when they splatter upon the
windshield of your car.
Cicada Haiku #82
In Australia
there is a blue cicada.
I bet they’re not loud.
Cicada Haiku #83
In just a few weeks
the craziness will be gone.
Will we miss the bugs?
Cicada Haiku #84
For seventeen years
we’ll only have memories.
Will we remember?
