Short Beasties Poems

The Spanish with whom I sup
asked me, so I did:
“eat sea beasties – look it up!”
Chocos, yes, there are,
and there’s calamar:
los del mar?
Squid.

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Squinting into the lens plugged tube
At a droplet placed on a slide,
His focused eye beheld an unknown world. 

A water bead became a circular sea
Teeming with writhing blobs of life,
With creatures he had never seen in dreams.

"Wee beasties!" he exclaimed in trembling awe
When his intrusion into microcosm
Magnified what he and we could know....

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Catch a little foxy with a stick and box
Give it to the bunny waiting white
Find the priest to marry them
Oh how gay is all of that
Like pulling rabbits from a hat
All the woodland beasties gather
Happy rainbow days ahead
But what about their many babies?
Who will feed so many bunny foxy mouths? 
Not to worry says the pastor giving vows
These little fellows are both males 
And there are abortions by the billions
To live happily ever after that...

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