MAPPING THE CITY: DC Places, Part II Mike Maggio   THE SNAKE The snake at the nation- al zoo is two- headed. It slith- ers for- ward strug- gling to go this way or that. Each head hiss- es at the oth- er lung- es in an at- tempt to bite. One forbid- den day one for- tunate head will swallow the oth- er.   Mike Maggio has published fiction, poetry, travel and reviews in Potomac Review, Pleiades, Apalachee Quarterly, The L.A. Weekly, The Washington CityPaper, and DC Poets Against the War. His books include deMOCKcracy (Plain View Press, 2007), Sifting Through the Madness (Xlibris, 2001), Oranges From Palestine (Mardi Gras Press, 1996) and Your Secret is Safe With Me (Black Bear Publications, 1988). He lives in Herndon, Virginia. His web site is www.mikemaggio.net.   Published in Volume 11, Number 4, Fall 2010.   To read more by this author: Mike Maggio: Whitman Issue Mike Maggio: Wartime Issue