The Mosquito Knows
by D.H. Lawrence
The mosquito knows full well, small as he is
he’s a beast of prey.
But after all
he only takes his bellyful,
he doesn’t put my blood in the bank.
D. H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England,
on September 11, 1885.Though best known as a novelist,
particularly for Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Privately Printed, 1928),
both Lawrence’s poetry and prose were a continual source of
controversy, often involved in widely publicized censorship cases.
He died on March 2, 1930, in Vence, France.