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Rattler
It is a hot, silent June day
The midday sun beats down on the field
The Rattler lies in wait
Suddenly a noise,
The sound of dead branches being cracked, broken
The pure sound of young laughter
The two boys aproach
The Rattler does not retreat
It is hungry, and prey approaches
Oh, the folly of the Rattler
The two boys draw closer
The Rattler prepares to strike
The boys look around
One sees the Rattler
He bends down to grab a stone
He throws it with a true hand
The small, round stone hits the Rattler
It is nocked to the ground, stuned
The boys cheer
Now the second boy, a younger one, throws his own rock
He hits the Rattler's body
Where the stone hits, blood apears
And the boys cheer again, louder
They are egged on by boerdom
And Rattler lies helpless
Finally, one last stone ends his days,
The Rattler has fallen,
Man has won
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I wrote this piece after my uncle told me about a rattlesnake him and his brother found in a field and killed; just days after they killed it, the field became a consrtuction zone. I wanted to capture the metaphore of the rattlesnake's death and the take over of the humans.