Thursday, January 26, 2012

Confronted with Etouffe'

Mack Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

Confronted with Etouffe’

No exoskeletons pollute my taste,
For my profoundly English digestion
Rejects such critters as foul, unclean waste:
The matter is not subject to question.

Assure me that a crawfish is nutritious?
I will offer you an earthworm instead.
My proposal is merely meretricious:
Suck thou the brains from a crustacean’s head

Wet shrimp and mud crawfish, O what are these?
Roaches with an aquatic attitude
Really little more than sad seaborne fleas
Not these did Jesus feed the multitude

Give me some fish, with slick scales on their sides
Or maybe a turkey (cut off its head)
Or good dead cows (Moo! Moo!), once clothed in hides:
Endoskeletons, yes! (with buttered bread).

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