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[rubyraine]

I won't write the boring essays we were assigned to read. It is just funny how teachers pick the boring uncreative essays to read. Here is a writing (not assigned for us to read) I found in my book that I actually enjoyed.

God to the Serpent By:Virginia Hamilton Adair

Beloved snake, perhaps my finest blueprint,
How can I not take pride in your design?
Your passage without hoof or paw or shoe print
Revels in art's and natures S'curve line.

No ears, no whiskers, fingers, legs, or teeth,
No cries, complaints, or curses from you start;
But silence shares your body in its sheath,
Full-functioning with no superfluous part.

Men try to emulate your forked tongue,
Their prideful prick dwarfed by your lordly length.
Two arms for blows or hugging loosely hung
Are mocked by Boa Constrictor's single strength

How dare men claim their image as my own'
With all those limbs and features sticking out?
You, Snake, with continuity of bone
Need but a spine to coil and cruise about.

Men fear the force of your hypnotic eyes'
Make myths to damn you being wise and deft.
You, Snake, not men, deserve my cosmic prize.
I'm glad you stayed in Eden when they left.

Now why was That not a part of one of my assignments? Teachers are so conforming.