Payback's an Itch

I am not a flutter of love

From a butterfly’s stretched wingspan

I am not a coy mourning dove

Forewarning of tomorrow’s Axeman.

But I do fall between

The better of two extremes.

I’ve arrived in a smoke screen,

The pest keeping the world obscene.

I do not drive a magical bus

As that is for Ms. Valerie.

I do not kill to talk and discuss

As that would be a malady.

But I am a monster of sorts,

If you browse recent press reports:

“Half escort playing water sports.”

Half Voldemort in Bermuda shorts!”

Unlike Seth Brundle,

I mutate and unbundle.

Much like Kellyanne,

I defend the travel ban.

Hollywood writes about me,

Not your poor carpenter bee.

I’ll live forever like Pan

For I am Mosquito-Man.

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“Payback’s an Itch…”

Noah J. Sandel