#9. Including Pauses for Doubt.

A group of well-dressed ants opened a consultancy firm.
They specialised in urgency management.
Their motto: “Everything is critical, unless it isn’t.”

They faxed invoices to flowers.
Held meetings at the bottom of teacups.
Charged by the minute, including pauses for existential doubt.

On Holy Saturdays, they wore tiny headsets and shouted:
“Just circling back!” into shells stolen from snails.

A lawyer once tried to ignore them.
She lit a candle.
Unplugged the universe.
Sat very still.

The ants mistook this for an invitation to follow up.

And so they did.