Jerry Reynolds

They Won\'t Bite

 

Trying to spread his word,
the vain speaker
was fighting off flies
attracted to his aroma.


“They won’t bite,”
a young boy alleged
“just harmless circle-flies.”


“Circle flies,”
the speaker inquired?


“You see them in pastures,”
the boy added,  
“circling round horses Asses.”


“YOU CALLING ME A HORSES ASS?”


The dapper speaker shouted.


“No! That would be,
of me, ill-mannered.”


Grunting, the boastful
Speaker complied.


A thought
that caught
the boy’s mind,
“It’s, surely, hard
to fool those flies.”