Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:08PM
As I was completing my pre-bedtime mosquito killing spree, this popped into my head:
To my foes, the mosquitoes,
My arch nemeses on these premises,
Keep your malaria out of my area and
Damn you all to hell!
Stop buzzing in my ears and playing with my fears.
You know each little itch makes me twitch
With disgust and rage.Because with you comes the plague and disease
Which does nothing to ease
The suffering of a people with already few means.
So get out of my room
And stay away from the cage I lock myself in to protect me from you malicious bites.
I hope you get tangled, desiccate and die in the folds of my net as you try infiltrate my wing-free haven.
And damn you all to hell!
Sincerely, a malarone-deet-permethrin-net-protected mesungo* who cares.
*mesungo = white person in Uganda
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4 comments:
Oh you mesungo meshuggena, battling the biters of Uganda! We'll want to know how the soup worked out. Soup is diplomacy at its warmest.
Hi Danny,
I love Uganda!
Good luck with your project and with battling the mosquitos. Try to find some kosher matoke while you're there.
Oh yeah, and try to have compassion on ineffective parents of screaming kids on flights...such as myself!
Andrea Edwards
freaking brilliant lyrics, mi amor - perhaps you're the next billy joel? :)
glad things are going well - and you didn't blog about being sick from iced coffee, so apparently diarrheal illness isn't striking with a vengeance. and hurrah for kosher-izing a pot! :)
looooooooove,
your shiksa (sp?? haha)
Hey man, it's nice to keep up with your travels on this thing. My favorite entry so far is the poem, btw. Hope everything's well and keep up the posts.
By the way, in case you're anywhere near my good friend from college who's in Uganda:
Julie Berenyi
c/o ARISE
PO Box 265
Ntungamo, UGANDA
-Alex
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