May 18, 1971 (I was 26)
My great great grandmother
used to talk to any snake
who’d come wandering through the grass
Times have changed a great deal since then
but not at all my great great grandmother
Let some old rattler come up shaking his tail
like a kid tapping a penny on a candy counter
and it don’t faze her a bit
She just stands there with her hands resting lightly
on her hips and says “What do you say snake?”
and like or not the snake tells her something
My great great grandmother says
there’s a lot to be learned from snakes
I guess I take after great great grandpa’s side
I never heard one tell me something useful yet
and a lot of people I hear
don’t pay snakes any attention at all.
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