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Pest Control
To rid a dwelling of bed bugs
one overheats the home
in Texas they've disovered,
to the utter delight of some,
if you heat the state, for months,
to one hundred and ten plus
you stand to rid a goodly portion
of the invasive Californicus
one overheats the home
in Texas they've disovered,
to the utter delight of some,
if you heat the state, for months,
to one hundred and ten plus
you stand to rid a goodly portion
of the invasive Californicus
Published 8th Sep 2023
Author's Note
Based on an article I read about Califorians moving to Austin and finding the climate a tad more fierce than they supposed. *What I found interesting in another article about interstate migration was that California was the number one relocation spot for Texans. We've lasted for 17 years we'll stay a spell longer🤠
*Disclamer: I can't vouch for the veracity of either article mentioned.
*Disclamer: I can't vouch for the veracity of either article mentioned.
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Anonymous
8th Sep 2023 8:38pm
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8th Sep 2023 9:50pm
Thsnk you, DK! I hope this is taken as humorous after all I am Californian🤠
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8th Sep 2023 9:51pm
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8th Sep 2023 9:59pm
The grass may be greener on the other side, but often are the weeds as well.
Nice work
Nice work
9th Sep 2023 1:03am
Thank you Maybe! I am glad you like the piece! The lastedt grass-is-greener I read, before yours, "if the grass is greener on the other side, water your grass,"
10th Sep 2023 5:23am
Dear GW,
I enjoyed the ironic humor in this write. A very clever subject matter with wit and gentle humor. H🌷
I enjoyed the ironic humor in this write. A very clever subject matter with wit and gentle humor. H🌷
11th Sep 2023 00:40am
Thank you so much, Honoria🥰 I am thrilled and relieved that you see the wit and gentle humor in the piece...I feared it is too caustic. Just a funny thought that came to me on the spur that jingle jangled in my brain until merrily I wrote it down🤠
14th Jan 2024 00:16am
I spent a few months in Austin in the summer, autumn of 2009. The heat was very nearly unbearable, so I spent a lot of time in Zilker park and the Colorado River so cool to chill down in, sweaty cans of beer, three dollar joints dulling the emotional jagged edges. And October down to 17 degrees one night sleeping out in the Green Belt.
A very cool city but Texas as a whole? Horribilus, as Caesar might have said.
Nice poem. TY.
A very cool city but Texas as a whole? Horribilus, as Caesar might have said.
Nice poem. TY.
