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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

Many Ways to Kill Gnats

There are many ways to kill gnats

It is not very hard to do

Just set out a nice, sinister trap

And they’ll stop pestering you.


You can put a banana in the oven,

Open the oven a smidgen,

Close it and turn up the heat

After letting the gnats fly in.


As they shrivel up and die

Of heat stroke and dehydration,

Watch as they give their inaudible cries

Of pain in their desecration.


Or put a pot on your stove, 

And put in pasta or peas,

Then when many gnats land on it to feast

Slam the lid on and be at ease.


Turn on the eye,

Watch those pesky gnats strain

To desperately escape,

Their agony and pain.


You can set out a small cup of vinegar 

And put a sticky fly trap above it,

Let the gnats gather round the vinegar

They do really love it.


Some will land on the sticky fly trap, 

And find themselves in a pickle,

They will try to get free to no avail

No matter how much they wiggle.



The others will be intoxicated

By the tangy vinegar they smelled

And one by one fall in and drown

Their thirst now eternally quelled.


There are many ways to kill gnats

All it takes is some imagination

And a strong will to end the gnats

Who cause feelings of consternation.

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