081313 #copperhead We are lumpish apes molded and fabricated by a specious veneer called civilization. We belong nowhere. We shove our rude planks into the sinuous body of the river. We hurtle downstream as if being hastily digested. The relentless rain washes our worries and our secretions into the rest of the environment. We are poisonous sticks; we are polyps; growths; we are a cancer.