Gorging food for worms... <br />Chop the guzzling tube <br /> Beast of the belly <br />Violently starve <br /> One dust of evil infects <br />Soft fruits carve <br /> <br />Cut the throat of <br /> Insatiable greed <br />Cow-like laziness <br /> Forcibly weed <br />One droplet of evil <br /> Envenoms, lies breed <br /> <br />Hermetic, clogged up cortex <br /> Insensible in rash vortex <br />Crush into pieces <br /> Skulls proud <br />Fiercely grind <br /> Stony, devious crowd <br /> <br />Spleen, gall, ill-will <br /> Settle into putrid kill <br />Asphyxiating charity <br /> Taking side with the unwise <br />Of green monster <br /> Gouge out thirsty eyes! <br /> <br />Of avenger habituated <br /> Rip out all veins infuriated <br />Wicked soul vastly mutilated... <br /> High dudgeon strangling <br />Suffocating with chimeric needs <br /> Hellion of hostility feeds. <br /> <br />Gut out hoggish senses <br /> Burn away filthy urge <br />Fortify Herculean defenses <br /> Tiniest drop of evil purge <br />In Carnal Virtues surge... <br /> <br />Burn to ashes ego's sighing <br /> Doomed breathing/dying <br />Incinerate garbage heap <br /> Self-decimation frighteningly deep <br />Gang of insolent bandits sweep! <br /> <br />Human nature snaky <br /> Save from inner, outer <br />Heavy-handed dissipation <br /> Cogitators lost and shaky <br />Catastrophic resignation. <br /> <br />Ax the fruitless branches <br /> Trees barren behead <br />Send to the scaffold snake's head! <br /> in good earnest to True Vine leap... <br />Mephitic pile of iniquity weep! <br /> <br />Depart into damned exile, <br /> Lake of fetid fire <br />Go away! Leave! Move! <br /> Rancorous serpent, <br />Scrofulous cloven hoof!<br /><br />Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snakebites/