She lies out of alligator eyes.
She says, "You'll learn to understand,
It's easier this way."

Under bridges, a blanket of seaweed and mold
Wraps and grows and breathes around her.
She coils beneath a rotting city;
Dank and dark-- she can feel
It's laborious sighs,
Mechanical motions rusting
Under a steel blue sky.

Her forked tongue flicks out of razor and steel,
"You'll want to stay."