Requiescat Octopus
What sort of trick can an octopus do—
pull lobsters from a top hat?
Take a mackerel and saw it in two?
Or change an eel to a sprat?
Is it a card-shark trying to hustle?
Renowned for the tricks that it did
dexterously shelling an edible mussel
with ink— like Billy the Squid?
Is sword-fish swallowing such a career?
Finding oysters in aural recesses?
Or making monk-fish disappear
aided by octopusesses?
What trick can it do with only a beak
when left behind by the circus?
Speak!
[This message has been edited by Jim Hayes (edited April 17, 2002).]
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