Close Encounters of the Poisonous Kind

102º and there’s a scorpion in my bathtub.
Too hot to care, or worry too much.
I put an empty flowerpot over it, and hope to death it dies,

without applied pressure.
How do you kill a hard shell anyway?
A shoe? Something toxic,

perhaps?
How about some really strong
bathroom cleaner? Or hair spray?
Sounds like animal abuse and torture

to me…
But could I really sleep at night knowing that
it’s out there, scuttling

around, and could possibly get back in!?!
It’s my fault, I left the
window open without any screen.

But tomorrow it could appear in my living room.
Or
my

bed.