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Apophis
Devil that rides my back,
Snickering into my ear,
Me, a senile hidden in a cradle
Afraid of the grandpa clock
On the far, far wall.
I stick a lollipop in my mouth
It’s an orb of neon glory
And oh, how pretty it looks
How pretty do I look
As I fit an entire blue sky,
A bottle-green park,
Dust, coarse and textured as Life
An entire world, perhaps?
In my mouth
You are desperate
Probing your thumb into my mouth
Intrusive yet so caring
“Say AHHHHHH. STICK YOUR TONGUE OUT.”
You are so worried, you should be;
I have, perhaps, swallowed
A stray shard of glass or two?
You cannot find, cannot find it
You don’t look under my tongue.
{surprise!}
As I swallow this world, hissing, spewing venom
The glass shard that once did,
Reflect the sun’s midsummer glory
Shall escape
Flip and swirl, Ricky-Ticky-Tavie
In my sour, serpentine belly
Rip me to shreds
And I shall know the pain of creating something
My sweet child-my unintentional offspring
Is anything but sun-drenched
That is as inky blue as the earliest hour of dawn
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