////Snake Pit/// Poem by RIC BASTASA

i could have
died
from asphyxiation
but i did not because
of you as
i laugh looking at you
looking for
a dictionary
skimming trying to find
out what i really meant
about the word with an
x on it.

you are fat and proud
and people love you for that
on the other hand
your being dumb and helpless
and on the positive side of it
your being innocent
and guileless
ah, that is it,
not being like them
they will love you for that
for most of them have
turned to snakes, poisonous
and lethal
biting each other in the
snake pit of their
temples.