Blind Snake

Blind Snake

 

My orthodontist said she was nice,

so I dialed the number. “Food” was the

code word that opened the hidden passage.

Immediately, a snaky noodle omen appeared.

 

As the halo of mystical neon fire swirled

around her war-painted totem head,

vicious secret corpses rose to the surface

of her twin baby blue puddles. Used up victims.

 

Her long folded legs shifted beneath the table

like a derelict building on the verge of collapse.

 

She began to interrogate me with an intermittent

hateful flick at the corners of her crimson mouth.

 

Then, I knew she must have been an assassin

sent to kill me, and make it look accidental,

 

or an out of work birthday clown with lots

of twisted balloon fetishes and helium-voiced

mental demons I would never fully understand.

 

I told her that I had to run to the restroom,

hopped out of a tiny square window and headed home.

 

That was two weeks ago. Yet, each time I pass the

front of that Chinese restaurant, she’s still there.

 

Clearly, I need to find a new orthodontist.

Reviews

[Nothing Personal]

A commentary on a situation where everything we perceive can be seen as in a different way, sitting in a perfect blond haired, blue eyed orthodontist's chamber one could conceive wicked poems like this..LOL u're good..She must have been very hot..Clearly we need new orthodontist's..great work as always..

[KAREN]

Hahahaha! Very good humorous poem!

[J.M]

Haha - i don't know who the woman is but i'd say you definitely need a new orthodontist, and maybe to avoid that chinese restaurant. And i just love the idea of someone squeezing out of one of those tiny bathroom windows, genius :-)

[KatiePie]

I knew I should've braced myself before I read this. It took me a few moments, to gather myself after reading this because it was just that brilliantly funny. (:

[Robin]

Clearly ...

[freelancejouster]

your orthodontist has strange taste in women, i'll say that much.

[John Jackson (El Juero)]

Scary, but fun. I do not want to meet this gal in a brightly lit room, much less a dark alley. Deliciously descriptive, as usual.

[E.H. Monroe]

I'd say so. I'd also say you need to dodge hard food drink more milk and stay away from the advice of crack pot mouth murderers. And blind dates are an awful idea,

[Apathy To Empathy]

Wonderful! I loved it (as i do everyone's writings) but all I can say is, you're writing holds so many metaphors and such, and it's just wonderful!!

[Cocoacandy]

wow... i agree...not exactly sure what this woman is up to, but she definitely sounds evil... and i agree... you need a new orthodontist...... good work, keep it up!
*cocoabean*