Chupasasquatch

Meet the New Colossus.

It’s coming to suck your marrow,
kill your livelihood,
wreck something you built,
and probably wants your women too;

builds its nests in woods
and swamps and hollows
where you were planning to build
a condo development;

shows up in your headlights
when you’re trying to get somewhere
and leaves its thick hair all over the place.

According to legend

it has either been here since before
the first white settlers,
is a recent entrant
from across the border,
or was dropped from on high
like a curse from aliens;

the only thing you know for sure
is that you’re terrified
and you need a name for what scares you
so you’ll watch some television show
and some authoritative voice
will offer you an explanation
so you’ll seize on that

until a scarier one comes along.