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The snakes..the venomous snakes….are dancing……to convey to us that they will not lose this fight. No matter how hard we try. This is their world.

LEAH

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These snakes are  young, beautiful and privileged. They wake up in the morning, kiss their beautiful upper middle class to rich  snake parents, and enjoy the luxury of not having a job. You’ll never see these snakes do things like clean houses, scrub toilets, raise other peoples children or work as servants to rich people. Instead, these snakes spend their time dancing….and chasing  their dreams of becoming artists. These snakes hone their talents every single day because they have the time and money to do so.  And as they grow older they become stronger and greater, more powerful. They go to snake Grad school, on snake scholarships even though they don’t really need it….and  eventually earn the support of theaters, institutions , fellowships, Fulbrights and more.  Some of them even become snake movie stars because they have relatives who are in the snake movie business at the envy of their other  snake friends, who secretly want to be famous. But they’ll never be famous. They’ll just have to settle and  fly around in their a beautiful upper middle class snake cars with their own martini-drinking snake friends who are kind, hip and  sophisticated. Sometimes they’ll  get sad and they’re pain is real. Just as real as our pain.  And when these snakes cry…their tears are bitter and salty  like ours.