Rent-free boarders in our homes
Offices and favorite stores
They live to eat what we
Unconsciously discard

And they repay this service to them
By contributing asthma and allergies to us
Although, I’m sure they do this
Equally unconsciously

They look ugly
When viewed under a microscope
But then
So do we all

In this and with
Their cosmopolitan distribution,
Parasitic symbiote ways with other life,
And habit of repaying good with evil

The dust mite
Just might
Be the closest other form of life
To human