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"Hiss"

Legless I walk among the green
Blades and tunnel beneath
The earth to seek a place
Where I am welcome.

I am blamed for your own
Naïveté. Cursed as the bringer
Of sin unto a sinful race in a
Folktale slash history book.

I am feared for my body.
I am run from by the masses
For the way I speak and how
It feels to touch me.

I am shunned for being
Serpentine. Metonymized
With vengeance and deceit.

I hiss to cry. I burrow to hide
The cold abomination that is I.