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Winter 1984   Vol. 1 #2
Winter 1984   Vol. 1 #2

Poems/Not Poems

For Jack Kornfield's "On Throwing The Lobster Into The Sea"

By Allen DeLoach

 
 

 

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)

Topics

Food, Poetry


 
 
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