This Is Boomslang - Joseph Nicks

Boomslang Is The Name Of An Arboreal African Snake(dispholidus Typus) Of The Family Colubridae, Knownfor Its Potent Venom Andrear-fanged Jaw Was Also The Label Affixed To A Widely-ignoredpoetic Form Championed By Various Disenfranchisedand Largely Unpublished Writers Of The Late Twentiethcentury.the Boomslang Tongue Can Be Vaguelytraced Back To Its Rather Obscure Roots In Mid-1980slong Beach (california) And Even More Tentatively Tolate-1970s Was A Malleable And Difficult-to-define Dialect Often Characterized By Contra-diction,half-assonance, Lexiflexion, And Wasdecidedly Non-prosaic And Generally Ebbed Andflowed In Subtle To Even Elusive Rhythms Thatfollowed A Sort Of Unsung Musicality.very Fewexamples Have Survived - And Copies Of These Titlesare Now Quite Difficult To Find (see Appendix B).most Ofthe Authors Have Long Since Died Or Elsedescended Deep Into Dementia, Leaving Joseph Nicksas One Of Boomslang''s Last Remaining Practitioners.