low road

she's been "talking" to my lifelong "friend"  
 
it's good to know which worms  
don't dig into earth well enough  
to waste as bait, so long as fish  
stay nutritious. And I can't dilute a snake  
metaphor on a monument to spinelessness  
too weak to slither, let alone constrict  
 
so be it, extend fifteen minutes of semi  
discomfort, into thirty or so, to tie them  
as knots onto the bottom of helium filled  
balloons, because they need new space,  
before I blast them with a bb gun. My sky,  
and the sun has been blocked too long by  
a tornado, that is too quick to call my  
mild breeze a storm