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[deckardcanine]

For my mom's birthday, I've decided to repeat last year's gift of a poem a day for a week. This one may look self-serving, but it's what came to me:


Up in a downscale apartment,
There came a mysterious snake.
She hunted a Mickey-ish rodent,
But this was a rat—her mistake!

Uncertain if rats could be eaten,
She gave him an indirect threat.
If he could provide her with chicken,
He wouldn’t have reason to fret.

He showed her the chicken from Popeye’s,
Not quite what the snake had in mind.
He left her to eat unattended,
And whom should she happen to find?

A human, all burly and hairy!
The two of them hollered at once.
More shocking was when she spoke English
While stressing a few consonants!

The man couldn’t fully believe it,
But after some talk and a plea,
He opted to buy her some pet food
And still let her slink away free.

The snake, now called Aspen, has lingered,
Attempting to serve as a friend
To Kody as well as to Virgil.
Who knows how they’ll be in the end?