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Mosquito

By J. Patrick Lewis                                                 But a minute later Archie Hill

I was climbing up the sliding board                        And Buck and Theo Brown

When suddenly I felt                                               Were horsing on the monkey bars,

A mosquito bite my bottom                                     Hanging upside down. 

And it raised a big red welt.                                    They must have looked delicious

                                                                                 From a skeeter's point of view

So I said to that mosquito,                                       Cause he bit 'em on the bottoms,

“I'm sure you wouldn't mind                                    Archie, Buck and Theo too!

If I took a pair of tweezers

And I tweezered your behind!”                               You could hear 'em goin' HOLY!

                                                                                 You could hear 'em goin' WHACK

He shriveled up his body                                         You could hear 'em cuss and holler,

And he shuffled to his feet,                                      Goin' smack, smack, smack.

And he said, “I'm awfully sorry

But a skeeter's got to eat!                                          A mosquito's awful sneaky,

Still, there are mosquito manners,                            A mosquito's mighty sly,

And I must have just forgot 'em.                               But I never never never

And I swear I'll never never never                            Thought a skeeter'd tell a lie

Bite another bottom.”

In the poem Mosquito by J. Patrick Lewis, the narrator describes what almost seemed to be a blissful ordinary time at the playground just sliding down the side, however all of a sudden there was a mosquito bite that "raised a big red welt." At first the narrator lost and confused, only wanted that welt to disappear thought that if he took a pair of tweezers he could "tweezered your behind!" away. Funny enough the "skeeter" discuss with the narrator that he was sorry and forgot about his the mosquito manners, plus he explained how " I'll never never never Bite another bottom.” Even though this was stated the skeeter will not "bit another bottom" he repeatedly is forgetting because he strikes again and bites Archie Buck and Theo. Now the narrator at the end of the poem has gained this feeling of  shameful aggravation what he or she views a sinful act for this mosquito to be "awful sneaky" and "mighty sly" which had destroyed and altered his perception of mosquito's, due to the narrator ever thinking that a "skeeter'd tell a lie"... Disappointment and Failure is what the narrator senses.