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The Secret Lives of Moths
As a moving body approaches
the speed of light
(relative to some fixed object),
time slows down for the moving body
(relative to that object).

This is the reason
moths circumnavigate light bulbs
at such insane velocities.

They are slowing time for themselves.

And manage to live
hundreds of thousands of years this way.

Meanwhile, flying in such tight circles
instills in them a strange dementia,
making them think they are humans
living ordinary lives.