The Snake

"Bring me a young beautiful woman."
A woman was brought
after a charismatic shout
came from an able bodied man.
The young beautiful woman was ordered
"hold your "athoch" at the hips."
Oh! - this is to stop the snake from getting away.
As its new polished scales shine to mock us in arrogance.

A snake
that ate or killed
at least everybody's something.

But the GIANT snake is not in a hurry
to slither away
today or tomorrow or next week
because a woman's underclothing or not
they will never see or kill it 

Because they are all part of it,
from the man that let out the shout
to the young maiden that was brought.

The chief and police is its sharp eye
the sweeper, its rattling tail
the accountant, its venom rigged hollow fungs
The cabinet, its deadly poison
and I, the onlooker, its backbone.

by Ken Oketch