To Share Is To Care

Roses are red,

Violets are blue

I love my mommy

and daddy too!

(Sarah and Jeffrey each presented this poem April 25, 2013, “put a poem in your pocket” day at school)

Lobster friend, growing one leg at a time –

Tactical generosity abused,

Victoria says, we are not amused.

He's lost two little legs – washed away,

What doesn't kill him makes him stronger.

Nietzsche's notion that's ruined nations.

With eight legs, the third's shot away

Just picture a decapod 'come

The fifth prime – it's a brave new world.

School attacks; ten's become six

And the stubble that remains

Makes him hop on two threes, son.

Sinking in ocean sand,

Leg five is a club, come

To bat the beast away.

The rest, limp and fall

Reveal the meat, recall

A feast, here once more.

(“The Triggerfish Chorus”, a poem I wrote New Year's Day 2000, finished 1:17 PM EST)