Smiling Copperhead
J. D. Nelson
This child is a snake, like both of his slithery
parents -- no garter snake, this one -- no Florida
blue-belly with a frog in its food-tube -- after
January first, we might not be able to see the rain
for the forests. I was up all night watching m'tv,
eating pork rinds like my hero George the first, the
conspiracy pirate sittin' on his lunch bucket and the
rest of the story with Good Ol' Paul -- what kind of
hell-frog are you talking about, Colby? The kid
screamed but I heard it with my eyes and not my heart.
In a row, three with a blink jump with the power of
the racy suggestion, a clue until we have a powderkeg
on the slopes on the beach on the back of the mesa
with oven mittens -- your copy is missing? This is
terrible news, frog. Whose teeth are these? Not mine,
under here with the snakes. We'll have a listen in
just a minute -- I have ten of those cables out back
-- take this note back to the frog:
(This is the "Note")
let GO w/no reason, ordered thinking/location of
HELL=inhabit
ingh\\h
/31 below in intl falls mn/ugghers/meet/me
beneath the THREES
and ushers rush to front us/wet/noodle(in)thehot
hot/t/.u/b:I've been ou/who know/outtasite/monk
see/monk do?
T here in the trees h-or\t\\
--bottles/ofBEES! Stinging the babies and
upsetting the ladies/crude(SCOPE)hot tub for
th-ree/unoXdos
hot:tub4hrs now,what
gives? Respon
/with the wind
chill/nonono/sible por/tree
poise, standing my underground-whoknows-civil
poet+3-pointed crown/good lord get the haas / happy
see happy do
get the hoop-holes, exotic remains/help fro ma quiet
noise ? something like the ess ? pull over
ence of numerology/the entire holy land belongs to me
and me alone/this is what the long ranger was reported
as saying to the media immediately after his very
public firing and this test message is hanted/I was
ijacked/d
get the hand/under the trees
tree,-------nathan says he?s heading/to/another/d
batt/
HOUSE?th]]]many --- pull out
Up above ala
Skan soy-il,veg/universe
S /// 6 d batt
Eries
Eeeexplain?unlesson
Forest/of/hanging trees,tree/s\tree^t
Won't make sense
Un
Less&whistling.beaver learning to typewrite like jack
says truman 50s
&waiting for EGG DYE, old song
&bottling my anger!/house on the hILL
I wouldn't stump the squid if eye wore /over n
out/jest kid
In-tune w/the d
Battery universe/of heavyduty flash
Lights and boomboxes/
Uvula./killing the second one by one closer and
closer, but if you're happyu does / can't be too angry
at the shop
Ping mall santa claus ? it's not his fault I can't
find any work as a telephone santa remember my ewhite
beatr\\/getting away with what?
Beater/truman60s
---/feather in her
hare/no doubt ins
urgents - happy to see
upper lip region surgery secretary of slime
beard? Claus - last all thru the yr/
kill yr insurance
dreams too early?
Drink this ? too late /it will make you kill the rest
before it's too late ? remember the lack of oxygenes
in my dna, reptile style / assurance
And I'm no earthling remember?
That taking the real.mess
Age away/from the tv children/
Real true men don't kill animals/
Unless there's nothing /make sense too late/else to
eat/extend the life of a human organism? I'm not of
that strange planet and I have no idea what the
pattern is - don't you watch any tvin you \r -- what
kindof killer
S are yo --- a winner in this / guaranteed
The first?winner> election/
--anyway,the hive)u talking abou
t? protection claws/
not get away with it/ever
y dayi'll/enter
the hollow
earth?/
think this way it ends?
You never get this on tv/understanding the principles
and waiting for these dreams to finally ( funnily? )
make sense -- I myself have discovered a living city
in Antarctica --
Teenage werewolf things/accompany me?
~
supernews about the baby
everyone's favorite
gift recipient --
I hope you won't
have to learn
the hard way.
look at a diagram
if you need
a refresher:
did you notice
the new color scheme?
I've been at it
all week
end.
not as fancy
as a high rise
ball room,
not as many guests --
but people
love
my parties.
would you like
some of my
answer bath?
I'm reclining,
volcano-
eater,
I'm a pencil
drawing,
a thumbnail.
I move under
the un-sounds,
you call it
silence.
I'm a shaky
shadow,
a leak
from
another
dimension --
you might
have seen my
face on your
oracle
receiver
if you're
from the
future, too.
~
should I?
should I perform
this next one?
miles of green ribbon
the cats in the sandbox
show up wearing nothing
here's your free magnifier
alone in a sun cave:
I am a stone,
older than the dust
on that spider's top hat.
~
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