Illustration by Gaelan Kelly

Meet The Cagey Bee

Our honoree

As the master of

Hyperbole

His emperor wish

Is more than a buzz

They say he won’t

And then he does

He’s The Cagey Bee

He likes to do bad things

For us all to see

As he beats his wings

He’ll do them proudly

With no regret

Then drone so loudly

That we forget

He waxes on

With his wicked thoughts

And irrationally drones

Of paranoid plots

We know it isn’t true

But he’ll say it over and over

Till he wears us through

Beneath a honey combover

He’s well Fox guarded

They’ll always embrace him

Make him King for life

And his brood replace him

What can be done

With The Cagey Bee

He’ll sting us all

Then charge a fee

The World, indeed, is his

Yet still he just complains

Our eyes, our ears, our lives

Unsatisfied, he remains

He says the game is rigged

He stomps, he pouts and he rages

So he makes himself feel big

By putting babies in cages

His vision is the bleakest

Despite his riches, gloom

Punishing the weakest

To avoid his fear of doom

What can be done

With The Cagey Bee

If the truth no longer

Will set us free

We must stand together

Remember what we’ve lost

Hold up one another

Stave off our exhaust

We may yet endure

But it will take some doing

For you can bee sure

There’s more buzz brewing