Earthworms - Essay

In the Backyard

Earthworms live in the soil, in the backyard of my old parents house. Occasionally I happened to see them invariably when I dug a hole, purposefully or nihilistically. And they never made me a pleasant sight. These terrestrial invertebrate creatures which wiggle when exposed to air never made an attractive impression on my mind. Although they were an essential component of the turnover of dead organic material, which is their staple food, I never appreciated their deed, always prejudiced by their appearance, I could not look at them for more than a minute without feeling nauseated, could not touch them. Yet I am sure Earthworms did burrow under my feet, and made the soil aerated making it good for farmers to grow their crops. Maybe they were the reason for us to not have a famine, last year when it was so dry season, when the rain did not happen as expected. Yet the soil was wet enough from an year old rainwater, that plants did not die of exhaustion.

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Earthworms on earth

Earthworms eat organic material, created with ingredients from the same soil that they live in. K+ nitrogen and atoms of carbon and hydrogen are essential components of these organic materials. Later they learned that it is easier if they stuck at one place and started to plant the seeds so they could harvest crops without travelling here and there all around the earth. So the first ancestors of these modern Earthworms settled around the rich soil of river basins all around the earth. And they had plenty of time to think. And Earthworms started thinking for themselves when they had nothing else to do. When their houses which were built with earth were filled with freshly harvested crops, they had time to think. And they found out the earth possesses more material than just hydrocarbons. Some Earthworms found out how to extract metal from earth. And they build a knife. Some found liquid earth that burned like a bushfire when heated, and they tapped into the earth. Some found copper, zinc, gold, and a whole lot of pure and non purified earth materials. And with these earth, they started making gadgets, so they can buy other earthworms gadgets. Not one, not two, but millions and billions of gadgets. One by one, one after the other, they distributed among Earthworms. 

Earthworms found out that their wiggly movement through soil is not fast enough as there is too much resistance. So they build a ten feed wide tunnel boring machine to connect continents. They build up cars using earth material, in factories made up of earth material, burning fluid earth material to power them. Lines and lines of Earthworms were seen in these factory assembly lines tweaking earth material little by little to make new machines that could fly.

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Earthworms in the sky

The elite Earthworms started to travel in these flying machines, still made up of nothing but earth. Just like every atom of their whole bodies these jets burned earth, releasing atoms to the clouds, which mixed with rainwater and fell back on earth to become earth again. At the pinnacle of these new Earthworm civilizations, they first travelled to the moon, one small step of a earthworm, a one big step for the whole earthworm generation. Then to orbit around the earth, on a space station. And as the Earthworms feared the sudden popping of their beloved earth they agreed that they have a collective earthworm consciousness and wanted to preserve this. So they wanted to preserve consciousness, by adapting to a new earth. Using all the earth material they build a starship, and jump when they see it light up the night sky, in an elated arbitrary joy, which they did not know from where it came from. And they thought they were at the verge of making a Marsworm for the first time. 

Earthworm Seekers

And occasionally some Earthworms refuse to take part in this earthworm culture and seem to be asking questions about the sanity of their actions. And trying to understand who made them aware of the earth, what they are doing in the soil. And these Earthworms never lasted, respected but cornered by the Earthworm society calling them philosophic worms.