TO A MOSQUITO BRIGADE.
On learning that only the females bite. Insatiate Anopheles, And imps of Mepliistopheles, Ye homophobes Whose poison-probes Forestall the pangs of Hades; Ye microphalpic cannibals. Bed on by crafty Hannibals, With what dismay I learn to-day The truth that ye arc ladies. A truce to these atrocities, Unladylike ferocities, And barb’rous glee That makes of me The sport of myriad lances; Be warned, O Ankylorhynchas, Tho’ in, I fear, a foreign key, That ladies pierce With verbal tierce. And hypnotising glances!
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16668, 25 February 1922, Page 6
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85TO A MOSQUITO BRIGADE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16668, 25 February 1922, Page 6
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