Summer conjures up barbeques and picnics,
including camping and dogs fetching sticks.
And pitching tents, sharing the ground with slugs,
centipedes, and other assorted bugs.
As twilight wains, female mosquitoes thirst
for blood, vying for who will bite you first.
And at sunset, as evening breezes warm,
clouds of annoying gnats begin to swarm.
Ebony skies ignite flashing fireflies,
blinking in and out...
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