The Assassin Bug
in liberal anapestic tetrameter

Are you looking for work? There's a vacancy
in the Central Intelligence Agency.
The replacements for gun-toting federal thugs
are predacious, voracious assassin bugs.
Just short of an inch, this is no colossus;
Waiting in ambush with lethal proboscis,
Stabbing the unwitting prey from behind,
Plying a trade that's been grossly maligned.
Injecting a toxin to digest their tissue,
It's a meal I'd decline without taking issue.
It sucks dissolved prey through a lengthy nose,
an unwholesome truth that I've pledged to expose.
They are found in all hues of light split by a prism,
on occasion, they resort to cannibalism.