I decided to change the title of this poem from "Mosquitoes"
to "Malaria" Please replace it, and discard the "Mosquitoes"
Version.

Thanks
Dawda Jallow



         MALARIA

Malaria syndrome and how lethal
Which is beyond my pocket.
Really I could have chosen
The lesser cost to prevent
This disease, malaria-phobia.

Is easy if my streets are
Cleaned up routinely.
No "mbalit" in the open
Streets, or "kerr" no
Water settlements
For breeds, "pah"un
Sanitized, uncovered.

No loopholes for the mosquitoes
Or hideouts. Is easy, is important,
Is life, mosquitoes! But is "salteh"
Problem, too, mosquitoes support.
"Set-settal" mosquitoes opposition.

My people are poor, my people
Have no standard healthcare,
My people, yet under parasitism.
Lets control the mosquitoes
City take-over.

Dawda Jallow.2000.


Translation: Wollof/Oolof words as used in the context.
Note, not exact meanings.
"mbalit" trash
"kerr" compound/yard
"pah/paax" gutter
"salteh" unhygiened
"set-settal" clean and clean up
Dawda Jallow 2000.

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