Abstract
Fruit flies exposed to many dead fruit flies lose their fat stores, die more quickly than those kept naive.
I who have lived long now and will die of my living, not of my grief, and more than once from a public garden stole roses— red ones and pink ones, scented and not— stammer before these troubled and truthful fruit flies.
This poem appears in the October 2026 print edition.
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