& with their hands they will take up serpents ... drink things deadly, it’ll never hurt them ...(Mark 16:18)

Take up serpents, put them back down.

If they bite, feel free to writhe round.

Your faith saves you unless it won't.

Don't you pine for an antedote.

Say, that's swellin' up pretty good.

Venom festers. You knew it would.

Guess you shoulda concentrated

on The Word. 'Tis complicated,

for your bloodsteam's floatin' in it.

Suck out poison? Viperous pit?

Oh, that's cheatin'! You just need faith!

Never mind you're rattlesnake bait.

Seriously, you might want to

'X' that spot. Tie tournequets, too.

Lance it to get venom out, to

die another day, with no doubt.

Or, then again, just ignore it.

If you live you'll sure exploit it!