Contributor: J. "Ash" Gamble

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One big damn year
all the snakes came out,
beat all I ever saw,
and we spent months
stomping them with boots
stabbing them with hoes
and avoiding snapping bites
each time we went
in the yard until the time
ended and they all went
back in their holes
and so did we


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J. “Ash” Gamble is a late in life poet from Florida.