when it’s the s tucked away in ‘asleep’ <br />in its s for secret hideaway <br />it feels s for safe and s for secure <br />though you can see it keeps <br />the s there just in case <br /> <br />now it’s waking up, uncoils itself; <br />it’s an awkward way that it has to move, <br />but it’s s for strong, as you’ll discover <br />if you hold one <br /> <br />if it feels threatened, my how it can move! <br />a rapid s for slither, or s for slip <br />into a drain or a hole in ground <br />quicker than an eyeblink <br /> <br />but if you catch it s for snoozing <br />and s for sunning itself, as adders like to do, <br />and it’s too late to s for slide away, <br />then it’ll hiss at you with a long ss… <br /> <br />to let you know that that there’s an s <br />in ‘fangs’ and in ‘poison’… <br />(and also, by god’s grace, in ‘serum’…) <br /> <br />so let it be, like the s wrapped in ‘respect’ <br />to enjoy its s for self, the s for same as you… <br /> <br />(Don’t you wonder, if snakes themselves hear that s <br />when they slither or slip or slide their way <br />through the grasss or leavesss or stonesss <br />and know, that’s my own s for sound… <br />because I’m an s for snake…?) <br /> <br />Now it's feeling s for strangely <br />s for slippery, inside itself... <br />oh look, it's going to s for shed <br />its s for skin...why, I do believe <br />it's turned into a... poem! <br />Now it can see and hear itself! <br />ssssssssssssssssssssssssss <br />there's a snakeskin belt for you<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ss-for-ssnake/
