There goes the burrowing badger
eats the honeycomb and never minds the stings
if one sting gets his snout
he jumps startled and resumes eating
not even a comma mid-phrase
he does not like periods
the most he will allow is a change of line
he never had to look up
the word humility in the dictionary
and even his name is not mentioned here
neither serpent-night nor python-day
neither lion bite nor the venom
from the serpents of previous lines
shake his determination more than a hiccup
he is just a small animal
and his life might be a short lived
why bother with bee stings
serpent venom or lion bite
the honeycomb he enjoys like
the burrowing badger that he is
-Patanga Cordeiro
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