Superstition

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Dave Bonta
This entry is part 13 of 16 in the series Postcards from a Conquistador

Poem: 'They used to be superstitious about cameras stealing their souls. Tourism creates jobs, we told them. Don't you want jobs? But now their pictures have been taken so many times, they hardly seem colorful at all.'

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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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3 Responses to Superstition

  1. dale says:
    January 12, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Oh. Excellent.

  2. David Harmon says:
    January 13, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Yeah, this one’s a nice zinger.