Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for April 21, 2024

That’s smart. Perseus won’t want her head that way.

I like the one in the tree.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes.

She took the kids on vacation!

That Medusa. Always gots poisonous thoughts.

Don’t look at her now … with her head (almost) all naked like that.

I went free range over 20 years ago. Now they are all “out of range”. (At least I save on shampoo and haircuts.)

Don’t look!

“free range” just means one is too lazy to take care of whatever is free-ranging

As opposed to expensive range.

And then sneaky snake goes dancin’, wigglin’ and a-hissin’

Sneaky snake goes dancin’, a-gigglin’ and a-kissin’

I don’t like old sneaky snake, he laughs too much you see

When he goes wigglin’ through the grass, it tickles his underneath

Tom T Hall

I’m surprised not to see JasonSnakeLover here.

I don’t know. Without the snake hair she’s not really a stone-cold fox.

Every once in a while, Medusa likes to let her hair down.

If you walk on that lawn, you better be wearing snakers.

And the snakes got their freedom at the cost of her going bald.