affectionate reptile

we’re spending some time at a friends house and we have spent the night in the upstairs bedroom and also under the basement stairs (?) Both nights, we are bothered by this snake. It keeps coming to us when we get in bed and getting right next to me. I think it  bit me once when I tried to fling it away but mostly it would coil around my wrist and slide up my sleeve into my shirt. Wrapped around my torso, it made it impossible to sleep so I kept trying to get rid of it, even though it didn’t seem to have any harm in mind. I finally got so frustrated by the persistence that I squshed his little head between my thumb and forefinger, then I felt guilty that I killed it.

~ by ineffable infinitude on January 3, 2008.