Rocky Lagou

Snakeskin

I needn’t say this again,

Fall on me

World,

Mother,

Nature.

An eclipse, a disaster,

A picture-perfect moment.

I,

And the toc-toc-toc-toc.

Rock me to perfect refinement in a barren cradle,

With a tic-tic-tic-tic.

And a sickening need to release it all,

Fire,

Fall,

Vines and I,

And you.

And the asphyxiation of the world’s requirements.

But I will thump-thump-thump-thump

This old rotten apple until the end of me.

I needn’t say this again,

Allow the heavy sky to fall...to collapse on my frail grin.

But the old, dusty thing will continue to throb.

Until I molt you like snakeskin.