MADAME SNAKE

MADAME SNAKE

don’t let her
be a snake

slithering into your life
Simone de Beauvoir smart
sexiest of
philosophers

God, if she be a snake
you better
have some
big thoughts
you better have read
those big books
in the library, know
your
   stuff backwards

wouldn’t want her
to get feisty
try to
   swallow you one go
anaconda you
entirely

smitten by her beauty
behind that face
     to launch a thousand ships
lies the brain that knows,
can recite
      the Iliad
and much of everything ever
written
        recorded word-
perfect  in
those coils
 
madame snake will
       take such sweet delight

in teaching you
a thing or two

she
   slithered into your
life so
skin
   tight

what else can mere mortal
hope to do?