| Tropical mantis came into view one night. I was leaning with my elbow on the motorbike maneuver while playing GRID-race on a mobile phone; it blew a fuse in my eye when emerged from behind a baseball cap that had been put in the front bin of my cousin’s (RJ Gacasan) motorbike.
Known as “praying mantis” which sometimes misspelled as “preying mantis” because of its praying stance, it seem to be un-prayful and unreligious. In my opinion, mantises don’t belong to the family of grasshoppers and crickets because I didn’t see any mantis hopped.
The mantis looked confusing with its behavior of repetitive side-to-side movements. It made a crossover move with steady-planted feet.
Mantis can bite but have no venom, though can slash your skin with its raptorial legs. Some sort of scientific warning.
But I got too irrational to dart away when it went off and suddenly climbed up fast the speedometer towards the rearview mirror of the bike.
And for the first time in its life, saw its own reflection, its own image and likeness. |
Monday, August 24, 2009
Tropical Mantis
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