MOSQUITOES
(Publication
Date: May 9, 2007)
I have always liked spring weather.
Spring weather is nice, trouble-free and just right.
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Come on, brother, we get it, you need us, but ‘where is all this familiarity coming from?’
I don't have to share the same room with you all night, do I!
You're also an annoying thing...
You can't make that same noise all night!
We've had enough, get out of our house...
I wrote the lines above addressing the mosquitoes we've been forced to host in our home for about a week.
They're not just bad, dear friends, they're so rude, shameless, immoral...
I spent the whole night dealing with the mosquito I named ‘Sivri Kerim’.
I chase him, he runs away, the immoral thing.
I don't understand this shamelessness.
Even though we don't want him in our home, he stays there, the cheeky thing...
If he just drew our blood, hurt us,
made us itch, that would be one thing, but he also makes a noise without shame.
Buzz, buzz, all night he buzzed while I, with a newspaper in my hand, pursued him to spew death!
And he's clever, too. I couldn't catch the shameless thing; the sly devil must know I'm after him, because I turned the whole house upside down and couldn't find him.
Our ‘Sivri Kerim’ got the better of me, I have to admit it.
But I'm counting the hours until tonight; wherever I find him, I'll pin the lowlife down.
Oh, Kerim, ohhhh, you'll pay for this at my hands.
I can't leave them unmentioned here!
Let's also mention the creatures in my home—which I assume are in all of your homes too—known in common parlance as ‘küpdüşen’, whom I have nicknamed ‘the useless ones’.
These useless ones, at unexpected moments—for reasons I can't understand, though I assume they do it for no reason at all—take a bite and leave.
They're so useless.
They have no reason whatsoever to bite us!
They bite just for the sake of biting.
These bites do them no good either;
they do it solely to bother human beings.
Their physical makeup suits this, too: You can't see them, they're small.
These useless creatures, which are hard to get rid of, lie in wait in a corner of your home to bite you at any time of day and, when they catch you off guard, bite you for no reason, in a useless and meaningless way (low-lifes).
At least mosquitoes have a reason; they take blood, etc.
These don't even do that: They're useless, so I suppose that's why they do it.
But despite all their advantages, I'll beat them too, they'll see.
Well, I didn't start the war; they did...
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As I said in the opening sentence, I love the spring months.
The spring months have a beauty all their own.
At least there are not as many of the enemies I just mentioned.
Anyway, let's get to why I'm writing these lines: “It was reported that the Gönyeli Municipality, which has put into practice the ‘biological control’ methods recommended by environmental organizations, has succeeded in combating houseflies.”
I read this news in the bulletins and suddenly felt encouraged; I felt that I wasn't alone in the war I was waging.
Thanks to the municipality—which, incidentally, is the Gönyeli Municipality, within whose boundaries I live—it has taken up the fight on this issue.
But I can't help asking myself: “When this problem has already been solved in the world, why are we citizens still having to fight these creatures in our homes? Aren't municipalities the bodies that should be putting an end to this problem? Why hasn't this problem been solved all these years?”
See you Friday... Be respectful in traffic!
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