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Venomous Snake

See it curled up on the golden chair scratching its conniving beard, piecing together a sordid plan of how to rob the destitute people on the land. The streets are bare and empty and the people look unhappy, they have not had much to eat and they have to sleep on the cold concrete. The table will have to turn and someone will definitely get burnt but the truth still lingers around of how the Canadian bore hole in the ground and steal the beggar man’s gown. The gossip is flying in the street of how the British kills dolly the sheep, it looks at its blazing colors and wraps its body around it every minute and every hour. It sets fire to the oil field that penetrated the wilderness in the deep burning from March right through September and will go well into the winter and when the snow sets in the daffodil will begin to sing. See it curled up in the chair with a secret message to share; its poison is swelling in its tail and its elongated body is laden with nails, be careful how you walk around it and be careful how talk about it, it will explode in your face and send you straight to the grave. Its position on the chair causes everyone to flee, it will pull you underneath the tree, and make you bow down on your knees, and it will slap you in your head and drag you under the bush to reminiscence with the dead. It crawls out of the golden chair and stretches its long body on the floor; it moves around slowly and pounced upon the closed door. It is trying to get fresh air and it has nothing to fear, its swollen gut and its jawless face catapult it out of the race. It crawls around the empty floor trying desperately to break through the door, it climbs up the window pane and drives the visitors insane. It is four meter long, and it has jawbone as big as a man, it wraps its venomous body around the door with poison its tail knocking from side to side and it mouth open wide to fulfills the sacrifice. Before it could leap through the window pane a stranger with the knowledge of venomous snake, took it off the wall and end the woeful brawl, It held its tail and jaw together and sealed it up into a box with a message which reads “return to the sender”. It freaks everyone out and causes everyone to shout but the train came just in time with a message to save the divine and so the venomous snake with long green body and bulletproof head found a new home on which to roam faraway from the cantankerous town.

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Date: 9/17/2023 12:49:00 PM
Wow, this is enjoyably suspenseful, and intense. Love the imagery of the snake and its powers. Good wrap up for the ending, but its probably coming my way now.
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