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Title: The Viper

Author: Hilaire Belloc [More Titles by Belloc]

Yet another great truth I record in my verse,

That some Vipers are venomous, some the reverse;

A fact you may prove if you try,

By procuring two Vipers, and letting them bite;

With the _first_ you are only the worse for a fright,

But after the _second_ you die.

A POEM FOR VIPERS

By John Wieners

I sit in Lees. At 11:40 PM with

Jimmy the pusher. He teaches me

Ju Ju. Hot on the table before us

shrimp foo yong, rice and mushroom

chow yuke. Up the street under the wheels

of a strange car is his stash--The ritual.

We make it. And have made it.

For months now together after midnight.

Soon I know the fuzz will

interrupt, will arrest Jimmy and

I shall be placed on probation. The poem

does not lie to us. We lie under

its law, alive in the glamour of this hour

able to enter into the sacred places

of his dark people, who carry secrets

glassed in their eyes and hide words

under the coats of their tongue.

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