Snake

 There was a snake lived in the back

cool and full of watchfulness  

lived in our barn not in the house   

he wasn't hurting anyone

and he needed a place to go like all 

god's creatures winding through the world 

couldn't have been too much fun 

he would sometimes sneak up on the mice 

out there which was just kind of nice  

bad luck with his life didn't turn out . . . 

We liked him really me and Evelyn

until they disappeared one night  

discovered he injected her  

with snake venom and other things

escaped md was on the lamb 

found us here stayed for a year 

avoiding his sentence.   

I call him snake because he was a

cobra venom carrying one 

unemployed and on the run.