Copperheads, commonly feared by people here in the Southern US, love to eat molting cicadas as a tasty little treat. Don't you find that a little cute? Copperheads just munching up cicadas straight out of the oven. They must be so nice when they're fresh.

[Excerpt from Part 1 of "Land? Wasted.", a queer Southern poem inspired by The Wasteland.]

Velos the psychic, fictional character,
Told me my fortune though I did not ask
And was, unfortunately, right.
I do not read Tarot, but she does, and I wrote her.

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