DISCOVERY!

I came across a book I acquired in Pasadena California many many years ago. My kids grew up with this book: Selected Poems for Small Children.... Lots of memories came flooding... pray my kids remember...Here is one:

They Sting

A mosquito is

A funny thing!

Before he'll sting

He'll sing an' sing!

An' if you're near

Or if you're far

Mosquitos know

JUST - where you are!

An' perching lightly

On your face

They'll bite you 

On the tenderest place!

Then... when they've had

A bit to eat,

They'll b-z-z-z away,

An' - bite your feet!

Sometimes - you s-q-u-a-s-h

Them very flat,

Poor things, they can't

B-z-z-z, after THAT!!!

But as Mosquitos

Are a pest,

I s'pose the s-q-u-a-s-h-e-d ones

Are the BEST!!

(Alicia Aspinwall, from Shrot Poems for Short People)