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Tiny Tombstones

For Artober 2018 I wrote a unique insect epitaph every day of the month.

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Tiny Tombstones was a personal project for the month of October in 2018. Many artists participate in Artober and most endeavour to produce a unique piece of painted or illustrated art daily for the month. Instead, inspired by the tombstones that litter the lawn of Disney's Haunted Mansion ride and my love of entomology, I decided to create a humorous rhyming epitaph for a different insect daily. They were all posted to the twitter account @TinyTombestones. Some are definitely better than others, but it made for an enjoyable mini-project! I hope you enjoy them.

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Since Elon Musk is trying to kill Twitter (I'm sorry, X... wtf), here's the list of posts for each day in October.

2018.10.01 - Poor little spider legs curled up, couldn't breath underneath that cup.

2018.10.02 - All will miss your stinkbug retorts, although the air is fresher with you as a corpse.

2018.10.03 - It had no mouth, it could not scream, to warn it's fellow fireflies of the headlights beam.

2018.10.04 - Centipede used to stomping on by, struck dead by a shoe falling from the sky.

2018.10.05 - Six feet under this earthworm thrived, during a rainstorm it took a dive.

2018.10.06 - Stickbug sleeping one evening in the spring, burnt alive when used for kindling.

2018.10.07 - Singing cicada was looking for a mate, a curious dog is where it met its fate.

2018.10.08 - Ant heading home holding a giant seed, spotted by a bird that was just in time to feed.

2018.10.09 - This locust and their friends met a thousand tiny ends, nasty pesticides dissolved their soft insides.

2018.10.10 - Dear deer tick, they feared your lick, plucked from the scalp of a woodland hick.

2018.10.11 - Though sad to broach, our sweet crushed roach, did not notice the frying pan approach.

2018.10.12 - Two bees or not two bees, the coroner couldn't separate their smooshed bodies.

2018.10.13 - Dung beetle rolling along the side of a road, squished when a truck driver spilled its load.

2018.10.14 - If this ear mite could hear it might still be here.

2018.10.15 - While head standing the last of the kegs, a lad crushed this daddy long legs.

2018.10.16 - Full mosquito didn't hear the smack, that turned it into a blood Rorschach.

2018.10.17 - Though not Protestant or white, this wasp really put up a fight.

2018.10.18 - Ladybug looking so proper in her red and black, pecked by a bird for a light morning snack.

2018.10.19 - The lizard didn't just lick it, so we lost this gentle cricket.

2018.10.20 - Our lice lived well on a toddler's head, but his mom's shampoo left them stone dead.

2018.10.21 - This hungry assassin bug laid in wait, but a hungrier rodent marked this date.

2018.10.22 - Didn't heed the warning of this cold hearted killer, an early morning frost took this sleepy caterpillar.

2018.10.23 - I do not joke, I do not kid, a falling acorn crushed our beloved aphid.

2018.10.24 - In an overgrown lawn lived this bright grasshopper, until finally getting mowed and it was sucked into the chopper.

2018.10.25 - A sight to see, this drowning flea, a dog's bath time set its spirit free.

2018.10.26 - In dying arms they held her, this sickly poor boxelder.

2018.10.27 - More at home with your tears than a great big hug, rest in peace our little waterbug.

2018.10.28 - With your loss we are left poorer, dearest emerald ash borer.

2018.10.29 - This mantis devoutly prayed for a mate, the answer did cause its head to separate.

2018.10.30 - A forest fire raged into the sky, crisping our poor dragonfly.

2018.10.31 - Like a knife to bread, this butterfly spread, wiper blades smeared this monarch dead.

2018.11.01 - As October has come to an end, remember insects are your friend. Do not stomp or squish or tear, but love these creatures everywhere! If upon you they bite or sting, your epitaph they will sing!

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