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BLACK MAMBA


African born
Neurotoxin venom
Kills in four hours
Thumb or ankle bite
Twenty minutes
Head or torso bitten
Large gargantuan
Amount of venom
One to four-hundred milligrams
Of venom in a
Single bite
You're are
Paralyzed
Then dead.


2/22/2009 1649 cj






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