SOMEONE FAMILIAR

It can smell the blood in your womb,

causing its mouth to water, tongue to unfurl;

slithering quietly across the floor, searching

for you as it enters your room.

Connected to its painfully empty stomach,

its tongue is a long, scaly tube that is hollow.

It quickly burrows into your belly button,

sucking, slurping, a fetus is swallowed.

Writhing in pain, your stomach aches,

while you slowly open your eyes.

A fleeting glimpse of horror and death

suddenly changes its hellish disguise.

In order to gain access to you and all,

it reveals it has one and only one flaw.

As you look in awe, you never foresaw

the damn thing was your mother-in-law!