The Snake.

[Providence]: Burning Deck [1977]. First edition. Unpaginated. Fine. One of 150 copies. A part of the Waldrop’s third Burning Deck Postcard series. A single small letterpress sheet containing a short prose poem, ‘The Snake,’ by McLaughlin. It begins: ‘The snake is laughing in his small house of sticks. When he’s finished laughing he washes his face, combs his hair.’