Avoid Dengue With Watermelon Poem by Kim Barney
Avoid Dengue With Watermelon
Today I saw something
I had not seen before.
I thought mosquitos
Needed blood to live,
But there, right on top
Of the cabinet,
Was a mosquito feasting
On a ripe piece of watermelon.
Watermelon juice is red like blood, isn't it?
Fascinated, I watched for five minutes.
Will she be satisfied?
Or will she come looking
For me later tonight
Bringing Dengue Fever with her?
I have seen wasps getting drunk on the fomented juices of rotten fruit. They did not notice me, and I do not know that they were all male, but I thought it better for me that they were busy.
Yes, better to leave them alone and not have them notice you. I remember when I was a kid and was barefoot and shirtless kneeling by an irrigation ditch when a black wasp lit on my shoulder and crawled all around on my arm. Somehow I did not panic but just watched it crawl around a while until it flew away. Thanks for commenting.
how 'bout i offer them pesticides or, better yet, flame throwers? ! so, the mosquito gets Dengue from watermelons and then transmits to humans. am i understanding you on this?
No, the idea is that you give the mosquitos watermelon to eat instead of them biting you! (Before I left Brazil, it was the Zika virus that was the new scare, but when I wrote this, everybody was nervous about dengue.)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/24/2024 8:05:30 AM # 1.0.0.1119
if it was hot my bet's on dengue