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Teas and seas apply, at all protected.

Mosquitoes wind by my head like old American biplanes.

I swatted them down like I was King Kong.

More launched into dizzying waves.

Jesus, I'm muttered, slapping my sweat, slick skin,

each time I felt the tingle of a mosquito penetrating.

I know how wrong that sounds.

Imagine how it felt.

It was an August night, and northern Maine was hell.

The air was thick and ripe with humidity,

and the wood spewed bugs let Chernobyl's blown reactor spewed radiation.

I stood in the middle of the messy field behind the quaint,

Cape Cod styled Airbnb, we rented for the weekend.

The grass lit to my knees, dried, yellowed,

bound on three sides by thick woods,

the house on my back, trees everywhere else.

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