When my tired frame relaxed outside in a sedentary mood Caught in the heat of a lazy Summer Saturday afternoon I thought I might want to go inside soon But then upon my limb I spied a thief A mosquito planning to plunder blood with suicidal belief What hasty nerve, I thought, for a thing so small To have so quickly chosen its own downfall But then I, gazing down upon the greedy creature, felt a kindred spirit It must be weighed down by all the things it could not do, and so I could do nothing but refuse to **** it I stared as his belly filled with something that was mine and watched him buzz away with the summer breeze intertwined The next time it tried on someone else, I hoped that poor sod would be easily dispatched And finally fulfill that itch it and I had to scratch