Brood X (cicadas that is…)

It seems frum tha genral reactshun of folks round tha workplace that thars a perplexin fascinashun with tha large scale emergence of tha 17-year cicada. Ta me this aint muchuv an event or nuthin, I mean thars always a species or three of cicada round every year n all cept nobody fer the most part pays em no mind; but this year with thu Brood X tis all bout the vast numbers of the critters thats got folks all giddy with delight or in sum stage uv fear or anticipation.

Now iffin ye don’t know of what I speak here’s a lil sketch I done uv one all caged up in a mason jar that sumbody at the workinplace had brung in fer to show sum others who hadnt never seen one, or so they claim, yet i suspect they has but don’t recall it.

Here abouts in my litl area uv County uv Knox Tennassee i have yet ta observe the dinse swarms uv cicadas seen by others ‘“ hunnerts uv thousants uv em crawlin frum neath thu soil as nymphs ta take flight ta thu trees and make a bunch uv wingnoise to coax a mate into the stupor uv luv so thats they can soon depozit thair eggs an mediately up n die by tha millyens. Seems theysa swarmin just certain locashuns a bit moren uthers but I aint seen no brood xers with thair smallish bodies and telltale red eyes, and believe ye me im out n bout amongst the mountains and hollers plenty nuff uv tha time. But I like ta remind peoples that seventeen year isa long time and that twixt then n now has been lotta useless housin developmint and such pon lotta habitat that them brood xers likely ta have lived neath the ground at. Them poor bugs never made it atall and iffn they mighta survived low ground sumhow tis a shame that they tried fer sweet sunshine an only hit up gainst the basemint concrete uv sum condominyum.

Well such thoughts can be depressin, so i figger ill give thisn in tha mason jar a nuther chance even tho he aint mine to free he aint rightly the property uv tha one captured him neither. ill just consider him an autamatus bein same as me as i remove his tin foil barrier an fling him ta thu sky…