<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410464" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lobster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank<br>Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water<br>Running down a glass washboard at one end<br>And siphoned off at the other, and so<br>Perpetually renewed, a herd of lobster<br>Is made available to the customer<br>Who may choose whichever one he wants<br>To carry home and drop into boiling water<br>And serve with a sauce of melted butter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile, the beauty of strangeness marks<br>These creatures, who move (when they do)<br>With a slow, vague wavering of claws,<br>The somnambulist¹s effortless clambering<br>As he crawls over the shell of a dream<br>Resembling himself. Their velvet colors,<br>Mud red, bruise purple, cadaver green<br>Speckled with black, their camouflage at home,<br>Make them conspicuous here in the strong<br>Day-imitating light, the incommensurable<br>Philosophers and at the same time victims<br>Herded together in the marketplace, asleep<br>Except for certain tentative gestures<br>Of their antennae, or their imperial claws<br>Pegged shut with a whittled stick at the wrist. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We inlanders, buying our needful food,<br>Pause over these slow, gigantic spiders<br>That spin not. We pause and are bemused,<br>And sometimes it happens that a mind sinks down<br>To the blind abyss in a swirl of sand, goes cold<br>And archaic in a carapace of horn,<br>Thinking: There's something underneath the world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The flame beneath the pot that boils the water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410464" data-title="The Lobster de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water Running down a glass washboard at one end And siphoned off at the other, and so Perpetually renewed, a herd of lobster Is made available to the customer Who may choose..."></div> </div> </div>

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