Fleas

FLEAS Alarm clock shows Saturday 7 30. Yes, please! More sleep - a professional delight for this catcher of fleas. For the present, I’m working from home at my ease And my career may be in permanent economic squeeze. Before Covid,my daily branch-swing to work took 45 minutes in the trees; Now no need to commute to the office on Saturdays. Just swing down to breakfast….maybe cheese…….. Hope my wife has prepared something other than bananas and peas. Gonna spend entire day working from home, charging no fees, Checking the family fleas. Uncle Bob always has some dragged in from the quays Usually bigger males picked up somewhere is the seven seas. So here’s me turning back Bob’s fur and straining to seize The little moving pests, often down on my knees. Bob doesn’t like sitting rock-still like some flea-prison trustees; Would rather be swinging in the breeze-filled trees. But he will chat endlessly about the state of the G 7 economies, The latest stats about Covid 19, or wasp-stings, or bees, Vaccination rates and social distances the length of two-skis, How many fleas are being chased out of hospitals or galleries, How many Capitol senators are bitten in their arteries. Bob assumes such chat is less tedious in my search to please, But actually I would prefer silence so that I could watch in reprise The next episode of ‘Life in the Amazon and Belize’ - How the trainee-monkeys down south avoid cough or sneeze Especially the sort carried by fleas. Aided by techno stuff in 100 degrees With medicines and vaccine from Buenos Aires. Sooner or later my from-home job of ease Will be under threat from medical monkey trainees. Bob will have no more complaints about prison trustees or disease And I’ll be able to go back swinging in the breeze To the office on Saturdays And read the latest research about fleas South of the border or overseas. 7 April 2021