To Bee or Not, buzzer Options

[Merlin]

To Bee or not to Bee

Another close of day, and rain
pulsed on the building in tintinnabulation.
This was not my choice of evening, but
ducks should be dancing with pleasure.

Another day in the jungle – feeling wiped
and horrified at the thought of fighting traffic
through squares of manmade symmetry.
As I waited at a light, I wondered
why our world was square.

And I wondered why the bee,
that architect of perfection,
had chosen the hexagon as its design,
but man is smarter than a bee
and not as fragile.

And I wondered why I wore my dress pants
on a day destined to be bucketing
till I remembered – man is smarter than a bee.

[jgdittier]

Dear Merlin,
Never knowing just what to look for when reading free verse,
I seem to recede to message...
My fist comment is that I learned a new word and am itching to use it somewhere. I onder if i can apply it to my verse where those sounds become repetitive and uniform, as all my stuff does.
THe thought of man's world being square as is the layout of our towns impacted my thoughts as you earlier mentioned our jungle. Ingenious irony there! THe comparing our mentality to that of a bee...
Why squares, why hexagons? Maybe because they are the best choice for both.
Then you tell us that man is smarter than the bee, yet not smart enough to protect the crease in his pressed trousers
from the rain.
Your insinuous observations of man and bee's brilliance brought that smile I treasure most when reading poetry.
Cheers, Ron jgdittier