Dengue

"I guess the source is here

your plants

Why don't you throw them away

They're breeding moquitoes

Moreover, some of the leaves are dried, almost dying

If I find any larvae of mosquitoes swimming in your vases

They will end up in your cup!"

In they went

at a hurl

the grey rubbish bin of the male staff toilet

not a single drop of water followed them

They had been unwatered for a long while

still green still thriving

But to keep the peace

Life

had to be sacrificed

Here is a candy for your good job

How effective

Not far away

on another shelf of a female teacher

sit four plants

brimful of water

and on another table

also belonging to a female teacher

sit one

also planted in water

uncomplained

untalked about

unnoticed