Mr bedbug bugs my bed
My bed is bored and bugged
Mr bedbug can't share any part in my bed
My bed is bored and by bedbugs bugged
Mr bedbug plays hide and seek
It loves to bite and hide for me to seek
Mr bedbug comes every night
I sleep awake and seek to fight
It came again to bite and to hide
Tiny and fast and it came with a friend
Angry and pained I rose up to fight
My fingers and spray saw to their end
Mr bedbug bugged my sleep
Mr bedbug lies permanently asleep
I do not like how bed bugs prey
They feast upon us night and day
Praise God be kind
Grant peace of mind
And blow those blood-suckers away!
Greetings bedbug - said a flea
Let me rest my head
In this lovely bed I see
Welcome flea - a bedbug said
For the night here stay
You will very well be fed
Not one bite I’ve had this day
Was the fleas reply
To a body lead the way!
Not many I’ve known so dry!
Said the host of guest
From a lady came a cry
Help! I’m bitten by some pest!
Husband get the maid
Or tonight I cannot rest!
Heard the flea and was afraid
I must go! it cried
A rapid escape then made
The bedbug was slow to hide
And soon was no more
For that hungry flea it died
From a bedroom hear a snore
Saying clear and loud
To slumber this bed is for
Said a bedbug - on a cloud
Two is company
Three ( if one a flea )
Is sure to be a crowd
There is currently an increase in bedbug infestations
due to an increase in foreign travel.
Bedbugs, hide during the day to feast at night.
They inject an anticoagulant into their host
to keep its blood flowing as the insect feeds,
as well as an anesthetic agent
to keep the host from feeling the bite.
A number of products can control bedbugs
but the difficult part is finding the bedbugs
so that they can be effectively treated.
Due to bedbugs desire to avoid light
and fondness for tight spaces
they are often difficult to detect.
However political campaigns
are always a good starting place
in finding such blood-suckers.
Follow my voice make your
breath fail
Hips drive and
pump the air
Cylinder falls; choke and stall.
Fall in love
for a first kiss
A battle scar across your lips
Burning kerosene against
the thin moon
stinging, weltered
rubbing alcohol in a wound
Yoke together under simple
law
God's ugly celebration
In a bedbug rut
the thaw.
A dog with his fleas
a forest of oily pine
needles
and dark green night
silent, curled together on the floor
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