Week 14, Freewrite 2

Parasites like Oestroidea

Hold housefly or rodents firmly. Rotate
to advantageous position. Deposit eggs.
Eggs will stimulate from warmth, drop onto
skin, will burrow underneath. If licked, egg
will fester in digestion. They feast on rodent
population control. It must be that ovarian
crunch that drives them. Later, when dropped,
they turn pupal in soil.

But freedom is not with
flies and rats, not with the manure of cows and
horses. No herds for you. Squeeze spine to
painful sub-epidermals. Avoid raw meat and nail
polish—that’s removal, reversal, regression.
I watched them suffocate mine, some sap.
Matatorsalo was never simply ‘bot killer.’
Rather, it’s the fading of Costa Rica, some
colonial conquerment, some parasitic endeavor.