only if struck by hunger
it strikes

A beautiful neck
strangles
a beautiful neck
spawns
shining silver teeth
it will eat a mouse
it will invade a house
to eat you
but at times like this
it will eat itself too.

it slithers, as I have said,
and it turns upon itself
encircling
coiling itself into a coil of coily snake
and its tail flicks its head
Enraged,
the head licks the tail
and pleased by
the tasteful smell of self
it strikes

sudden as a cannon’s fire
powerful as a cannon’s ball
preferenced as a cannibal
a self-cannibalizing snake
and it is beautiful

as it pursues its tail
it eats its tail
piece
by
piece
and as the nourishment of self
is realized
the body ceases to shorten
it grows
and the tail is regenerated with life
Energized,
it strikes back
rises up
against the oppression of head,
and coils itself around the head
strangles
the breath of
the snake
stops
but the tail does not
stop
its anger is
unstoppable
and quenched by nothing
short of
death of
Head.

But as the body stops to breathe,
the tail no longer is empowered
to grip so strong
and it loosens
the head
in a desperation
coughs itself back to life
and the head is not dead
and the tail is not dead
and the tail is not dominant
nor has the head dominance.

Now the body must unify
to eat me
Man
the true oppressor.