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that snake again

white moon

crystalline on the belly

I put it out in the yard

sicced it on that damn possum

but it stayed still and I swear

it was laughing at me

you named it X because it gave you

anxiety

you felt clever

when all of a sudden

I told you I was having trouble

breathing around it

you said

I was anxious too

I keep trying to find it

bur I never had it

all my struggles were ideas

I think about Chet Baker

and his missing teeth

and my short eyes

and my boring writing

and the bug bite on my leg

and the easy comforts

and the lack of vision

and the apathy

and was it Chet Baker who fell

from that windowsill somewhere in

Europe

and growing older

and my lack of truth

and that coughing AC unit

and that z

a

pp

ppp

ing

desire to be different

and my narcoleptic anxiety

and what does it actually

do

you have two people

stuck in a room

but so what

you can add dude to anything

dude

and my consumption

and my stupidity

and my rousing rising

complacency

and you can explain it more

with more words

and my short sightedness