A Breeze Of Bees Poem by Saiom Shriver

Bees make honey for themselves
while capitalist human beings let them
labor all day long.. and then steal the profits
Many humans kill whole hives in the winter
rather than let the bees eat the fruit of their
own labor. Sometimes queen bees are
kidnapped. Their wings are clipped so that
they cannot move their hives.

Even their honeycombs are purloined for wax candles.
Some of them are killed by insecticides
sprayed by ecoterrorist cropdusters or municipal
death wagons
Others are killed by mowers, machine harvesters
They are stepped on by hikers.
They are crushed by beekeepers' movement of the racks.