SLITHERINE

some snakes don't mind the dirt in their eyes

or the lifetime sentenced to slither on their bellies.

they relish the underground,

the grit beneath their tongues,

the slit in their smiles.

some snakes will wrap their best lines around you,

tighter than a dead man's vow,

the road behind me is covered in them,

their heads are all as flat as the bottom of my heel.


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