Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes

"Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century.

The poem reads in full:

Adam
Had 'em.

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