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Hot summer nights
And doors are opened:
Mosquitoes swarm in
In the darkness,
Buzzing, loud.
Buzz, buzz, buzz,
Driving everyone wild,
Swatting
Like thunder
Hammering on the South Hills.
Buzz, buzz, buzz,
Happy in the darkness.
Stupidity can’t understand,
Wisdom grows confused:
Who can see in the dark?
The moon rises,
Dew falls,
And these imperious gnats,
Invisible, sharp-toothed,
Fly right in your face.
I may be a man,
Seven feet tall,
And you only
Tiny bugs,
But you outnumber me,
And I am sadly wounded.
Yet all things have their time.
Who can fight you
As you’re swarming up?
All I can do is hide
Under my netting.
But autumn will come,
And the fireflies,
And they’ll gobble you up,
Every tiny bit,
Every minute piece.
