transformative bit

Your comment
snake-bit me
inside the heart! Got in
through the aorta
and why
you got so
mean is beyond
my ken 

Anyone
can see I love
criticism! My great 
heart is full of sincere 
on it! 
That doesn't
mean 
I'm mean, 
but 
you can be
mean. 

I mean, you can.
People can. It's free! But
I mean come on, step back
detach and examine:

everything you said
about what I said was
right, even
if everything
you said about
me was weird.

That works. 

I think you were
just in a bad mood,
and 
- It makes me kind of happy!
In a way, maybe I did help? 
I bring out bad mood, 
draw it like a venom. 

It sucks

After all. I'm here
to help, honey. Me
all stung for no reason,
making "big deals"- SORRY 
not interested! I can see
my way clear 
here 

me
snake-bit
in the heart
sad and wise
in the face, 
but 
smiling on the inside 
with vertical slits in 
my heart's new eyes 
and a forked flickering 
ribbon-wisp of sibilance
testing my needlepoint fangs 

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