Seventy Seven Yeses

Before my first inhale
they asked me
if I was ready for teeth,
for hunger, for graves

and I still weightless,
fur already bristling
answered like a honey badger
that had never met a snake

Now night finds me
counting bites
on knuckles that finally learned
some things fight back

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[John the Baptist]

A metaphor for all of us here. Life sometimes teaches rough lessons.