Friday, July 16, 2021

save the lobsters

she became the leader
of the protest movement
for saving lobsters.
she wrote a paper on how
they scream
as they are boiled to death
in large pots.
hungry patrons
waiting with hammers
and pliers,
bowls of warm butter.
their aprons on.
it's unfair, she said. who
would want to die like
that. let them live out their
natural lives.
she was on the evening news.
60 minutes.
Dateline.
she chained herself to the bow
of a lobster
boat
as it went out to sea, where
a shark ate her.
no need for butter.

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