Raven in Green again..

nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emporer remains insane, and every day, is a new strain of slaughter, supply lines are less protected, evil on all sides, eye can smell the death on your flesh--creeping in, trapped within the twisting fingers of fear, and all eye see is ewe, that face, those eyes, burning like leprosy, eye can see u there poisoning the air, prostituing Nationalism, and eye want to attack, to rip out your heart and lay you flat on your back, and vomit a world of agony and truth into your throbbing illness of memory...and hate guides our way, eye long for the icy slap of a belt across my back, for the acceptance of death and blind cave war, the giving sleep of depression, the sweet elucidation of savage meaningless agression, chiseled in the meaty forearms of Mother Jupiter and his slave disciples, in the harem tents--outside, just beyond the edges--eye ride, a cycoptic mare in the fires of imagination. feeding my disease, a river of plagues, eye need something to remind me I'm still sinning that pain is important, that wurdz matter, that healing is possible, that eye am not alone ...in this --guard the houses--triple the watch,--Maidens, dig up your sorcery --sirens, sharpen your rocks..ewe will eat my pain again. whatever you need unite messiah ME

--Wurdz by Otep Shamaya

reoccuring snake images
August 11, 2003 8:00 p.m.

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So I've been having strange encounters with snakes or snake imagery.

It all started (I think) when Libby had a job interview at a park and while she was there a woman brought in a snake that had be hit by a car and the snake died....but it turned out the that snake was pregnant so the park specialist had to cut open the snake and pull the eggs out and bury them just like the snake would have done.

Then we went over to Paul and Jennifer's place and they have 2 snakes,including a large python....and Libby kept scaring me with it ....trying to get me to pet it when I was hiding in the other room......Paul told her to stop and put the snake away.

Sometime recently I had a dream where I was killed by a snake. For some reason I pissed off this snake and it kept biting me. ...it knew I was going to die after the first bite....but it was so pissed that it just kept biting me. ...I could feel the fangs biting into me until I finally faded from concience and woke up .....I knew that when I lost conciencness that it meant I had died.

Since I'm moving out of my apt in a week I've been taking nostalgic pictures around and I took some of St. Ben's ....a Catholic chruch here in town that was brought over in pieces from Europe. Then when I walked back to my car there was a rather large snake curled up behind the back tire of my car. as I got closer I realized that it's head had been severed from it's body and it was apparently dead. ...I was worried that I might of hit it when I pulled in....but B said it would have been smashed ....not a clean sever. Still, a freaking big snake behind my car in the middle of a city! what are the odds?

Last week I went with this nice lady artist I have class with to her house out in the country, she showed me the skin of this giant snake she found in her yard, pulled out perfectly. Amy is convinced she must have stepped on its tail and it bolted leaving the skin. (I told Amy about the snake dream)

Then I went to a figure drawing and the model had a cobra tattoo on his back....and Amy came up to me afterwards......"You had a dream about getting killed by a cobra.....steve has a cobra on his back!" ....I told her that was a strech....but it is interesting given the reoccuring snake image.

Oh and I went back to st. Ben's to go inside...and the snake body was still there...but it had been run over a few times.

I think there was more but I can't remember at the moment.

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