My Green God

Have you ever been driving and suddenly
had the urge
to drive
into
a
TREE?
Not because you wanted to crash, but
simply because you've
never hit that
particular
tree
BEFORE.

Bless knowledge,
SERPENT;
bless it with reckless abandon.

-Rachel Johnson, 1993

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The Contortionist is a private literary publication by Fish Hook Press.
© Rachel Green, 2001

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