Dunsany Dreams 6

The Business Man and the June Bug

The business man regarded the June bug that buzzed around his head.

‘What have you done to fly around me and bother me so?’ he asked the June bug. ‘I am a man of means and wealth. I have leveraged trades and bought and sold companies. My decisions can be the ruin of thousands. I can make the markets dance at my command. What have you done?’

‘Me?’ asked the June bug. ‘I have lived.’