Friday, January 9, 2026

Crawfish are not in the Bible - rhyming couplet

 

Lawrence Hall

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

 

Crawfish are not in the Bible

 

 

                     …spawned in that slime

Conceived by a pair of those monsters

Born of Cain

 

-From Beowulf in Burton Raffel’s fine translation

 

 

Eating crawfish is seasonally lawful

But I tell you true, they’re simply offal!

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