To whom should I report

These illegal tenants

Who share apartments in my estate

Without as much as recognise my person

Not to talk of paying of rent?

Who is out there?

Save me, if you can,

From this hoarde

Of crawling,flying,buzzing,zigzagging racket.

Guns and batons seem useless

In ferreting them out of their crevices;

Lances and swords do no damage

To their fragile wings

And with impunity they sneer

At the ferocious nozzle of the insecticide.

They brazenly kick at my fevered cheeks

With their meatless thighs

And guffaw at my febrile face

As I lay drenched on the bed

Sending a signal code of heat vibration

All around my dinghy room.