“There Is a Snake”

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“There Is a Snake”

There Is a Snake This isn’t a metaphor. And I’m not the snake. He was really there, then slithered into the short grass, under the bushes that to him must’ve been enormous, good cover, then into the small forest where I couldn’t see him. So I continued along the trail. Here, I might as well say it: I pushed him off the path. I was worried a bicycle would gut him. I grabbed a stick and sent him. I still want to let him just be a snake. What else …