beeline

A line of bees 
in ordered row 
are streaming slow 
along the ground

from fro to to, 
away they come, 
and here they go,

each bops around 
in bumbling, but 
overall the march
is mesmerizing stuff. 

And at the end, 
they climb a tiny 
hill and go down 
tiny hole! In one
by one - oh, what
the hell! Who 

are these bees? 

Or are they ants?
Fresh from the hive 
with take-home kill?

A hive-mind rivalry 
mischance