POLITICAL Poem: Python, by Swain Lee

Have you seen it before? It eats people, swallows
so slowly. They do not know they are dying.
This is a pain mostly hidden behind
all-inclusive resorts, above subway
turnstiles, inside your mother’s
purse, under your father’s bed.
Did you know that you can
talk to someone while you
watch them digest?
I did not.
I mean-
I
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