The lake watched in horror
the white patches of mouth
swerved on the surface
deliberate and deadly
desperate mother
dead-eye dad
!.22 pistol cracks
blue snake blood
little boy dock-side
kicking water
and waiting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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the white patches of mouth swerved on the surface deliberate and deadly desperate mother dead-eye dad !.22 pistol cracks blue snake blood little boy dock-side kicking water and waiting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I've seen what you've described - in movies!. Dad's wearing suspenders, boy's got freckles and mom's in one of those floral cotton dresses holding a smaller baby in her arms!. Edit: eating gravel - yumWww@QuestionHome@Com A loooooooong time ago when I was a kid, I have seen these unwanted critters in a lake, My brother killed many at the time!. Once the area became populated, and the water plant life along the shore disappeared Speed boats increased in number etc!. the snakes were no longer!. and I among others were thankful the snakes were gone!Www@QuestionHome@Com Have you ever seen a Saber Toothed Subway Rat running across the platform!? the oily monster staggered seemingly drunk with bald tail dragging that's not a doggie son thats a rat and you'd better stay clear don't worry he's more scared of you than you are of him at five years old, I knew betterWww@QuestionHome@Com I llived in Gulfport, MS when one decided to wedge itself in the space between screen door and door!. In the morning, I opened the door, half asleep, saw it, thought it was a toy the dog had left there, bent down to pick it up and throw it out!.!.!.!.!.and it sprung up in a coil at me!. WILL NEVER FORGET THAT! When I comment on the poems, I'm getting violated, so I just answered the Q!. maWww@QuestionHome@Com Stepping to the shore, I only had roots for foot holds!. No sooner said, she was there, head raised, syringes ready!. Before I could, he did!. Sidney came down with the ditch bank blade (some people call it a Kaiser blade,ahh haw) and made clear to me a fact I still retain!. The cotton mouth don't care!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Great poem, I've never had a cotton mouth come for me, but when I lived in Louisiana I had an 8ft rattler visit on my patio for the afternoon after a flooding storm!. Animal services come to get him and get him back to the bayou! Www@QuestionHome@Com I'm from the South and I know just what you're talking about!. I had a similar experience at my grandfather's pond!. A moccasin came after my father and myself as if it was going to attack us and my father had his pistol with him and shot it!. We were on the bank!. Www@QuestionHome@Com I have seen many cotton mouth water moccasins and copper head snakes here in the south!. Yes, they are poisonous and a 22 is good to have around in case one comes at you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I live in England where the only venomous snakes we have are protected by law!. Adders by the Widlife Act and politicians by the police!.Www@QuestionHome@Com They are mean critters!. A !.22 pistol loaded with birdshot would be my choice if the shotgun was not handy! Well said, your words painted the scene well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com YIKES! I've seen one be-headed with a shovel!. I think it was sick, cause it was just laying there on the sand before the neighbor kilt it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I like gravel!. What's a Cotton-Mouthed Water Moccasin!? Www@QuestionHome@Com Cant say that I have! But the snake made into soup,would be a much better meal than gravel! Throw in some catfish,and you'd have quite the dish!Www@QuestionHome@Com Vivid imagery!. I had just thrown the rope and taken off my skis waiting for the boat to pick me up!. Www@QuestionHome@Com I feel sorry for that snake, that it had to die in such a degrading way: in your "poem!."Www@QuestionHome@Com Nice offering, I can even see the gravel eaterWww@QuestionHome@Com I WAS NOT EATING GRAVEL ON THE ROAD!!Www@QuestionHome@Com No,and by the sound of that i don't want to either!.Www@QuestionHome@Com scary thing to happen in a mom's eyeWww@QuestionHome@Com |