Creature Discomforts, For Sunday Whirl Wordle 764

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Yikes! is that a scorpion? Actually, this is a bottle of mescal my student Eduardo gave me last year for my birthday. Inside were three giant scorpions and a coral snake. So far everyone who has visited me has given it a miss, as have I. It is rumored that a sip of it will bolster a man’s virility.

Creature Discomforts

Lest you suffer a hot foot in the darkness of the night
as you journey to the bathroom and feel a sting or bite,
best slip into your shoes first before you journey there
lest a scorpion or spider gives a wound that you can’t bear.

Then in the brightness of the day, out in the prairie grass,
God grant that you’re not bitten in the ankle or the ass
by a coral snake who wounds you and is off, then, in a shot,
leaving you with ashen face, intestines in a knot.

Wishing you were dead,  perhaps, instead of in such pain
that you vow that you will never walk in waist-high grass again
lest it lead to the resurgence of encounters with that snake
who surely you could fight off with a pistol or a rake

Better that you face it in bottle of mescal
than bushwhacking through the grasslands or walking down the hall.
if only you had seen it, but now that subject’s moot.
If you ever walk this way again, you’ll bring a gun–and shoot!

The words for Sunday Whirl this week are: shot foot dark bright prairie grass hot ash dead resurgence fight god

 

9 thoughts on “Creature Discomforts, For Sunday Whirl Wordle 764”

  3. ms pie's avatarms pie

    that was great!! one end or the other they’re gonna get you… always looking out for those guys…. walking through the bush … couldn’t help but laugh about the bottle… oh man, i’d be feelin no pain about the time i got to the bottom of a tequila bottle … nowadays the big fellas have turned tequila into a champagne of sorts… i remember when taking a shot it burned the whole way down… whew and cooled it off with a ice cold beer… great response to the wordle prompt

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