He says he’d like to have lobster tonight

but doesn’t have the heart

to boil it alive to eat.

Ok. that’s where he’s at—

as far me, I love lobsters,

and carrots and corn,

and blueberries,

and cows and pigs,

and air and water,

you betcha!

I love indiscriminately,

care so much,

I’m gonna recycle that lobster

he ain’t gonna eat

just like I eat the air

and know my breath

in and out.

[Click here to read Jack Kornfield’s “On Throwing The Lobster Into The Sea.”]

From the Winter 1984 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 1, No. 2)