On the Claws of a Crab

not a fan of being cooked alive in boiling pots...it's a crime against crabmanity

On the Claws of a Crab

As I row, row, row my boat haphazardly

down these murky waters filled with pestilence,

death and decay--- I rejoice at the destruction and

slaughter that I left behind for all of your kind.

 

As I row, row, my boat through these torrid waters

a cast of crabs follows beside me. The King Crab,

all muscle and no flab was about half the size

of my boat. He climbed on to my deck and with

his massive claws lifted me up and gave pause

before he said,

 

“why do you make the dead float and bloat about

in our seas. they bring disease and cause our little

ones distress. clean up this mess or all the birds,

bugs and bees, the animals of land and the seas---

will break your fiddle and still your heart and no

longer will our destinies coincide and be as one.”

              

I never saw Alexander (the name he is called amongst

his peers and subjects) so angry and alarmed.
I calmly stared into his black beady eyes, sighed

and answered him in all earnest. And I said,

 

“Do not fear their stink will soon disappear. It

is a lesson of fear for the living humans that are near.

No death, pestilence or disease will come to those

that I made vows to and hold very dear… All are safe

 from my wrath for those that follow the path~

Man’ broke their covenant of blood and sacrifice-

Their eyes now look upwards towards the skies

abandoning earthen ways for heavens lies---     

The fiddler’s strings will blaze across their lands

and desert sands will bury them where they stand---

The dead will be fed and god will choke on their bile.”

 

The King Crab put me down, smiled and sighed in relief.

His claw tweaked my cheek and the other waved goodbye…

 

As I row my boat down these purified and cleansed waters

watching the sun set and the eagles in the sky, a pod of dolphins swims by

the side of my leaky boat to jump, laugh, and play--- and to say hi…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RC

08/23/15