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!)
–
–Jonathan Caswell
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!)
–
–Jonathan Caswell
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.