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Interspecies
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10-22-2018, 10:32 PM
Interspecies
It’s Fall! Don’t you understand, mosquito-lady, that our children by my blood that you just drew won’t live to see Christmas?  Non-practicing atheist
10-23-2018, 07:56 AM
Where I live they do. I think someone's doing experiments on the climate just to keep mosquitos alive year round. Out of niceness; or out of malaria.
10-23-2018, 08:32 AM
Only to find out in 50 years they're a keystone species
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
10-23-2018, 11:17 AM
where i live it's dengue fever that's spread. it gets a message across for a short poem
10-23-2018, 11:06 PM
(10-23-2018, 11:17 AM)billy Wrote: where i live it's dengue fever that's spread. it gets a message across for a short poem And, as we can see from the other responses, not the same message to everyone  .
Non-practicing atheist
10-23-2018, 11:41 PM
(10-22-2018, 10:32 PM)dukealien Wrote: Interspecies Is there is a profound sense of ultimate judgement that lies somewhere here, or is this pure blissful incantation? I can't decide at all.
plutocratic polyphonous pandering
10-24-2018, 10:31 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Even though I’m not quite sure how the blood of the narrator is begetting babies with the mosquito, and even though that thought is mildly disturbing, somehow it works. I feel I should be sad that the hybrid-babies are doomed, but am also relieved that their potentially vampiric tendencies will never be realized. I love the chiding tone of the narrator and that he feels somehow tied to fate of this mosquito now that it has run off with his DNA.
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara
10-24-2018, 04:39 PM
This is a hard one for me to parse. It's solid, I just think my mind got stufk to an interpretation that isn't as consistent as it should be. With the title and the notion of the seasons my minf was immediately drawn to the idea of this being about the environment -- how neither the mosquito's larvae nor the children of its host will survive our man-made apocalypse. But, of coutse, revisiting this after some less desperate time may yield other results.
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