Mascara

Today I met
someone who
had a pet
snake named mas
cara. Ma
scara used
to be the
length of a
pencil. She
now takes up
their spare bed
room. A sen
tence grows like
a snake—feed her fro
zen mice and
watch it day by day.
Thaw the mouse in the microwave
so the sentence feels like she hunted.

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