Earlier this week,
a 3-year-old boy was
bitten and squeezed
unconscious by an 18-foot
reticulated python.
"She wasn't trying to hurt him,"
the grandmother said of the snake.
"She just instinctively, as a snake would do, coiled him."
The child's mother stabbed the snake 17
times with a kitchen knife.
"I'm so proud of my daughter," the grandmother said.
"Her mother instincts kicked in."
The snake belonged to a strip club that was being renovated.
The toddler had a few bite marks on his chest--none
required stitches,
according to the grandmother.
"The snake was a good snake," she said.
© Linda Peterson, 2012
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| Reticulated python Wikimedia photo by Mark Patterson |
The ironic sameness found in the snake's and the mother's intent and instincts makes this poem really interesting.
ReplyDeleteLinda's good eye and witty sense of humor provide a funny take on two very different instincts at work here!
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