The Insects' World

Insects are creatures with three pairs of legs,

Some swim, some fly; they lay millions of eggs.

They don't wear their skeletons in, but out.

They come in three parts. Some are bare; some have hair.

Their hearts are in back; they circulate air.

They smell with their feelers and taste with their feet,

And there's scarcely a thing that some insect won't eat:

Flowers and woodwork and books and rugs,

Overcoats, people, and other bugs.

When five billion trillion keep munching each day,

It's a wonder the world isn't nibbled away!

 

~ Ethel Jacobson

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