Showing posts with label Crawfish are not in the Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crawfish are not in the Bible. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2026

Crawfish are not in the Bible - rhyming couplet

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

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!