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today, I saw a beetle on top of my flour container.
it wasn't a rice weevil; it was round like a stereotypical scarab. it wasn't alive, either. it was lying on its back, legs ceilingward and motionless.

could it smell the grain through the polypropylene? or did it see the dusty white stuff and simply know it must be good eating? how many times did it circle the lid before it simply stopped moving? did it never have the impulse to move somewhere else, to make an attempt on any of the less-guarded cupboard treasures?