Jaymee Thomas Poet Concrete

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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Craig Cornish December 7, 2023 at 11:13 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!