My body whips from side to side
Each turn a shift in force and jolt
Creeping up scenic, lovely highs
Firing down grim, nightmarish lows
We never signed on for this madness
The plan, a pleasant evening stroll
Shape shifting drama apparatus
Coils, tightly wound around the core of my being
I take the head of the slithering snake
and grab the grip of a rusted saw
to put the teeth to its scaly neck
but I cannot make the cut 'cause
My heart; it bleeds too red and violet
Too empathetic for my own good
I can't kill anything because that means I'd have to watch it writhe
and die
and die
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