there is a time in every young man’s life when he must kill a snake

there was a heat wave one summer and things were frying outside people feared the air spread cureless fever and bolted their doors one night my dad swore he saw a snake in the pink garage insulation but no one believe him and my mom said ‘you’ve succumb to the heat’ eggs went missing from the refrigerator over the course of several days no one entered the kitchen in fear that there a serpent lived among us i ripped up all the wood and tile floors and i knocked down every wall i found the snake stuck in the frosty dust of an air conditioning duct the snake was frozen and it felt like a scaly fudgesicle as i bit down

Adam Moorad is the author of Prayerbook (wftpwm, 2010), I Went To The Desert (Thunderclap Press, 2010), Oikos (nonpress, 2010), and Book of Revelations (Artistically Declined Press, 2011). He lives in Brooklyn. Visit him here: http://adamadamadamadamadam.blogspot.com.