THAT BLACK SNAKE

Maybe he

    was a good 

         snake

Maybe bad

The boy

     didn't think

          to ask

After all, 

      Black Mambas

           some of 'em

come in black

He'd already kilt

    two Corals

         on his place 

Black is not

    a happy color

          for snakes

And lurking in 

     peoples' garages

           is 

Not a good plan

"Wrong place, 

       wrong time,

    Mr. Mamba"

He's gone

     to a happier 

          place

A four-ten did it

    nicely

But scarred the 

     garage floor.

*********************

Mil

5 June 2016

(A poem, written in the style of the

   great William Carlos Williams.

       whom I knew nothing about

          until the 1976 American

            Best Books, came out 

               in leather.)

(See Williams' THE RED WHEELBARROW)