A Life I Would Not Want

That's a worm living in a jar of cayenne pepper. There's a whole colony in there you can't really see. It's like an ant farm, but in hot, burning sand. Can you imagine living your entire live completely encased in ground cayenne? It sounds like an essay topic we'd have to write in 8th grade, right after 5 pages on "Life Inside a Ping Pong Ball" and "Contemplations on The Yellow Wall...".