RISKY–NOT RISKE’

Triple E and deadly Zika,

This summer could be a “squeakah”…

Mosquitoes fair game

For zappers and flame,

The summer’s for those who are meeker

(…that is, teachable about precautions!)

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–Jonathan Caswell

LANGUID LIMERICKS

LANGUID LIMERICKS

by Jonathan Caswell

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Little green bug blown onto my table,

I wonder if you are able…

To tell from the wind

Where you might have been,

Or is the wind too unstable?

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Random placement of tree branches,

Explained through fractal advances…

Seemedly random cause

Obeys fractal laws,

High-powered math has its advantages!

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As shadows lengthen afternoons,

Even a poet assumes….

To avoid “Triple-E”,*

One soon must be

Inside before the mosquitoes zoom!

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While checking for  chiggers and ticks,

Killing honey bees is nixed…

With so few bees

Left to pollinate trees

And flowers, any more gone will cause fruit to be deep-sixed**!

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NOTES:

*Triple-E, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis, is an often fatal disease carried by mosquitoes.

**”deep-sixed”, another way of saying killed, died or buried (i.e.: six feet under the ground)

“fractals” refer to a mathematical way of modeling images on the computer…which has also been used to accurately determine the relative percentages of, for example, tree species in a forest, or in describing certain natural processes.