Snakes fighting in a rutted logging trail
A chicken snake against a rattlesnake
Whipping the dust with their reptilian lust
For death among the ridings of despair
The rattlesnake is an endangered species
The chicken snake is okay with that, and strikes
The thrashers poise and pounce, loathsome and foul
Until the chicken snake slowly takes the rattler
Through peristalsis down into its maw
with the rattlesnake
Writhing desperately for a forced recount
Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019 at 4:37 PM UTC
Snakes fighting in a rutted logging trail
A chicken snake against a rattlesnake
Whipping the dust with their reptilian lust
For death among the ridings of despair
The rattlesnake is an endangered species
The chicken snake is okay with that, and strikes
The thrashers poise and pounce, loathsome and foul
Until the chicken snake slowly takes the rattler
Through peristalsis down into its maw
with the rattlesnake
Writhing desperately for a forced recount
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It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
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