Best Horseshoe Crab Poems

I went down to the shore one day to sun and frolic and watch people play. There at a tidal pool a horseshoe crab did lay. With my foot I tapped his shell then came a shout out what the hell! 
Can't you tell I'm...

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Blue blood horseshoe crab

A million crabs milked
each year for humankind
to detect vaccine contamination.
blue, ghastly, gruesome, repugnant!...

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trapped under my own weight
like a horseshoe crab with a broken tail
that’s been flipped upside down;
clenching helplessly, 
unable to right itself.

i’m nailed to the ground,
paining and burning 
under the very sun
that makes this world
a beautiful place.

waiting for the tide
to roll out and sweep me in...

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