1950s Titusville and Mims

From giant, bulging cylinders the fans

Sprayed out the fog to kill mosquitoes.  How

They acted I don’t know.  Cancelled their banns?

Abandoned buggy fucking?  Stuttered, “Ow!”?

I wonder if the city fathers were

Opposed to free flight sex on buzzing wings.

Were men opposed to points invading fur?

Most wanted holes to take their veiny stings

And white-ish slimy innoculation.

Well, yes, of course they still believed that black

And white shouldn’t mix—miscegenation

Was forbidden, not aphrodisiac.

Strong strictures hobbled the white man breeder.

The county bombed its civil rights leader.