I stand on a dining room chair rising brown
flood water circling around me are two eastern
brown snakes three red belly blacks and a vicious
tiger snake. very angry this one.
I hold the hands free radio phone in my left hand
a phone call. could this be emergency services
coming to rescue me. it is plastic home cladding
offering to clad my house in plastic imitation
cold calling in a state of emergency. how many
times have I said this is a heritage listed home
it cannot be clad in imitation plastic. still
they call. an eastern brown leaps up and sinks it
fangs into my bare calf muscle. the tiger snake
follows, unusual, it is usually the tiger that
strike before. the black red bellies follow
with their venom imitating a tiger but with smaller
fangs. the cold caller keeps extolling the benefits
of cladding my heritage listed home home in plastic
imitations while the snake venoms enter my blood.
A pain like no other pain you have felt before
floods through my body while the plastic cladding
cold caller tries to sell me a plastic cladding.
In agony I cry yes. They can take the proceedings
from my deceased estate.
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