The Ant and the Grasshopper and World Domination

Justin Streight
Nov 5 · 3 min read

And all while, the little ant prepared and worked and stored food for the upcoming winter, and the silly grasshopper played and relaxed and smoked weed.

Then, the winter months were upon the bugs. The ant was warm and well-fed, taking shelter in the home he had prepared all summer with his kin. And outside, there was the grasshopper, shivering and starving, on the brink.

The ant had every reason to turn its thorax on the suffering hopper, after its merciless teasing of the poor ant’s thorough work habits. Every reason to…

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Justin Streight

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I spend too much time in my own head and try to drag others there with me. Email: recklessspeculations@gmail.com

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