a kind of ancient snake charmer
squawks and honks a form of blistering thunk
till we all forget about the ocean quite completely

I slow danced with her once, to Prince’s Purple Rain at a Middle school dance. She smelled like strawberries and whiskey. She kissed me and forced her tongue into my mouth. I could feel her teeth. There were thousands of them. She told me to put everything on the Steelers. I got flustered and thought it was sexual innuendo. I put my hands on her butt. What happened next I don’t quite remember… but the papers said she destroyed half of Reno.