I Know How To Fight With Flies! Poem by Konstantin Ananin

- Aha! You’ve taken a small slice
Of cake and put it in this place.
Why?
______- So you haven’t seen the nice
Tiny lizard that lives here, Grace!
- What? I’ve heard whispers several
Times. I heard, then saw mice on the table
After breakfast, they ate all the cereal
Left there. Hear me out, Mabel,
If you take and put cakes for
This lizard, we’ll see lots more mice.
- But Grace, I…
_____________- You must stop, or…
- It’s for a short time; it’s for flies.
The lizard eats them and other
Small insects. Since I took and put
The slice there, it’s eaten either
Five or seven. It’s so good!