People Poems · PHOTO-0498

Mosquito Man

2025-06-09 · Herbin Living

Original typewritten page for Mosquito Man by Chris the Poet
Additional archive image for Mosquito Man by Chris the Poet

Transcription

I'm convinced these women can feel my gaze bite and sting like mosquitoes! Carribean girls--MAN! Latinas with dark, articulate curls Each one a letter, every handful a bounty of bouncing words driving me insane with verses of flame crackling the air, licking my ear...what man could go un-raze against the terrorizing beauty and pride of so many precious embers, precious, precious embers floating on top of the smoldering body of this helpless...city? Lord forgive me--ladies too! But I can't stop...well... I could...but I don't want to! I'm all bark and all bit but I won't violate! No! I won't touch you! Nol... Not unless you ask... Because I'm an ask man, first and foremost. Every day I ask the lords of love for mercy--I beg all my muses, but not a moment gets away without another neckbreaker sauntering down the sidewalk with my last breath,, and turn me into a pillar of salt, but God damn it, I look back! I'm bad. I know it. I try to close my eyes, butt I smell these mangoes, mameys, these stinging citruses and guavas on my mad, forked devil tongue, and I fall down to my knees,, down to my belly, and I just keep falling and falling, slithering along between angels' legs! Preying upon any chance I can get at just a conversation, ate..a conversion, turning a single, breathy dream to have sympathy, to sweat with me on some sultry summer's eve. Every one is Ms. Miami, and I tear up just thinking about making them mine,, wishing they'd be my Mrs...if only for a@ night... My prodigal eye's been wandering this city for ages... His brother, toot I'ma blood-thirsting pirate! T need two bri hes! Bury me in sand! Throw me e ~ fyb pil cold shower? I'm sick with looking!