Monday, August 27, 2018

№ 408: Mosquito Rights

Quartz: Mosquitoes

. . .the minuscule bloodsuckers kill hundreds of thousands of humans each year, earning the notorious distinction of being the deadliest animal in the world.

A lady mosquito has to drink blood.
It's what she was born to do.
If you were a lady mosquito,
that is what you would do, too.
She does not intend to cause you to sneeze,
feel ill-at-ease, give you disease.
She must drink your blood —
it's her mothering instinct.
If she doesn't lay eggs,
she'll go extinct.
Same as everyone else in this zoo,
animals, plants and you and me too,
we gotta do what we gotta do.