White Snake

Your scales

Your eyes

Ivory and ice

A contrasted; glaring; parroted; parody of mine

Black and white

We are the piano keys of the jungle

One can't exist without the other

We couldn't sound more alike if we tried

I had never seen myself clothed in someone else's skin

They see me, they fear me more

Slithering in the shadows

Black mamba, even darker eyes, soul to match

Shut; lock; bar the front door

I'm cold-blooded, like you said

All I wanted was someplace warm

We do our dance with a mouse between us

It has teeth like razor blades

Mind like a steel trap

Tongue made of silver

Guns made of words

Heart made of money

It watches me.

It waits for me to leave the shadows

It never looks at you

Why would it think it has to?

Even if it did

Its eyes made of someone else's lens

Would be so blinded

By the light your paper lizard skin reflects

That mouse wouldn't even see your jaw unhinge

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