Test out the rhetoric:
Animal. Vermin. Infest.

Inundation or inflammation,
fiery little tongues

that lick up kindling?
The intent is visceral,

in secare
antennae, thorax, not of us,

Kafka-esque, one day man
and one day less than,

mere question of taxonomy,
Insecta, Pterygota, Isoptera, Blattodea,

Class, Subclass, Suborder,
Subhuman, Superior Orders

(didn’t fly at Nuremberg).
Consider the words like Solenopsii,

fire ants, no, too late, like their bite:
The damage is the warning.