fluorescent, squooshy,
curled up in a
ball.
It has circled itself
around my arm,
This swirling, slithery
serpent.
Now sneaking to my
babsitting job;
scaring Mariah
with its scarlet tongue
and spacious pink mouth.
Scaring her when it
squeaks close to her head.
Written sometime between 1992-1994. Posted now for Lou.
