Picking Lobsters in the Corner Mart
Those plump commas of claws
can lean and wave at us
their eyestalks blind
to the unchanged waterThey scuttle
robotic in the fusia
oxygen bubbles are
degree symbols superscripting
their worthwhen we barter and choose
among the corn chips
and frozen food
I open my billfold
and taste the salt in my blood
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