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DRAFT - Rock Lobster, Ode to Ignorance

this fool with his drool baby drip spewing bull nobody asked for it no one here for it (hands over ears for it) so exhausted tired fuming, the mediocre mosh pit, little boys with ties tongued to the language of men, women know, have always known, how to speak it, boys do not know, the tongues of women never learned how to learn the world was already theirs, left soft, for the taking was too easy now they sit with bibs eating sea roaches calling it haute cuisine, buttered-up shellfish on a baby bib when half the world is allergic still, anaphylactic we sit, drooling from it waiting for their desolate epiphanies

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Date: 12/7/2023 11:13:00 AM
Enthusiastic culinary repertoire, slurpingly presented - can't argue with the poetry, nor demeaning those slobs who pretend, or don't care to pretend table manners never existed. But rock lobsters?- thought you were a northern girl, it's the thing in the south, have actually hunted them myself and same for Maine coast (which are much better) - never a bib nor a shuck glove needed for oyster slurping but pseudopods - the finest ladies I know partake. Allergies, none, edible epiphanies for me!
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Date: 12/2/2023 6:09:00 AM
Awesome concrete poetry Jaymee
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Tom Woody
Date: 12/2/2023 6:10:00 AM
Ps. I love shellfish, sans the bib
Date: 12/1/2023 11:23:00 PM
There's no denying it's good, it's made every protest poem I've ever written look beyond basic. I just feel I need to re-evaluate myself entirely now... Part of my brain keeps telling me that I have never eaten lobster but the other part is like but have you sat around not embracing your whole self and apologising for your existence half the time and I'm like well I even started the comment apologising for it. Great poem, makes you think.
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