two snakes
one crawling west
towards a holy lake
number two
slithering east
towards crusty life
whatever that takes
electrified at best
knowledge and shear desire
foremost and elemental
trying reptile sake's
fertile under adamant sky
meeting grit and ground
petty tip-toeing
flitting to and fro
thoughtful knowing
a kind of mystery reptile
still frightfully blind
it all seems so profound
I know that sound
just inept far-off looking
hoping one in depth day
cleft life has
finally found something
speaking about intrepid life
bereft of satisfying warmth
shedding reptile skins
while some slither
others feel on trial
still others dither
every bold vertebrae
denoting cold interplay
who we truly are
venturing somehow up
then creeping down
circus city streets
shadows and faceless clowns
gracing adjacent alleys
tasteless is there
where real art is
traces painted upon
studied back alley walls
look at all those
ruddy locked gates
smut spattered
everywhere tearful
shuttered windows
strong iron bars
crossing doors
then every pay day
for God's financial sake
not nearly substantial
comes around
some find and stay
monetary smiles
others remain in gutters
bitter and utterly servile
still trying to have a laugh
hungrily slurping pitiful
a sad gut full
from a slurried trough
homeless city traits
usurped from one
token hidden den
then some turpitude
attitude is spoken
down with words
paraphrased into some other
also a frittered sky
too damn strange
maybe as those deranged
lay uncaged and stoned
caressing some
possessed sidewalk
why not confess
silly with uncaring expression
every missing snake
cries and calls
it seems falling
quietude is quite quiet
a humbling virtual tone
still hissing is there
two fumbling snakes talk
parlaying in hiss and snake
communicating off and on
a pitiful virtual phone
picking fitfully
through fistfuls
mouthfuls of titillating verbage
something vipers eat
slithering past and beyond
circling every reptile cage
unhinge my serpent jaw
let turbidity encompass me
my entire lurid being
this hungry universal law
where hurried snakes
artfully create
romping through tall grass  
harried by such a rumpus
consecrated by umpteen
oak and aspen pasts
tall words at last
where some have been
what forests some have seen
such a historic pompous path
green pith that speaks
snake myth at last
pit viper mysteries
red belly black that's blistering
crossing water moccasin flats
addressing coral sub and tonic
yet brown is so iconic
stronger than asp venom
replicating crass power
whatever is plutonic
duplicated in the holy west
supplicated by an uplifting tryst
this is a complicated gift
lives and containers  
ripped bags and broken boxes
stuffed with platonic
vindicated and relying
on a million Bodhisattva
histrionic eastern tests
pissing on what is right
hissing at what is best
praying for something
perhaps even healing light

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