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Before I was even born I was predestined to misery
Because an asp swallowed my soul
Snakes have lived among us since the beginning of time
And have hunted us down like hyenas with stealth
Twisting their posable scales around tall grasses
Bodies baking and eyes flaming with ferocity in the heat of day
Waiting to take away our dreams with a lightning strike
But for most people our snakes get us in our lives
When we’re born we’re innocent
But snakes kill us through our families
Cobras spit at us through our friends and our mates
The tightening of the grip of a boa
We never want to admit is our own mistakes we’ve made
But in my case I find it’s not true
No snakes have attacked me in this life
And I have not stood myself under the branch of a hog plum tree
Waiting for the venomous tree viper to do me in himself
No the asp got me before I was born
They say snakes are blind
And can feel movement through the rumbling of the ground
Well the asp left me blind like a snake
Feeling the world only through words I hear and memorize
It’s as if I crawl along the ground on a soft underbelly
And miss what is most obvious about a person’s face and mind
The asp left me a snake without a soul
Is the soul nothing more than blinking of the eyes
Twisting of the mouth and feeling what turtles can feel
Or is there a reason why the snake got me first
Why I never discovered the things a two year old can understand
I remain pinned down like a garter snake under a t-bar
So I guess I’m not going to find out
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