I love crabs! Especially in my okra stew. Here's a short poem I wrote on the D train. My inspiration, I was probably thinking of eating some banku and okra stew, the traditional one with lots of crabs and w3l3! It tastes deliciously bombastic!
Crabs in a Barrel
How did they get there?
if not by their own
automatic limbs and claws
gliding across the wooden
curves of this containers
indulging in the swings
of being carried
then settling back
into a pool of frustration
How did we get here?
by spitting at each other's
faces and yelling
at familiar voices
containing our anger
in the grips of our arms,
pulling our hairs apart
in the blink of the explosion.
image from rapgenius.com
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