Screaming Lobsters

'For those of us who are concerned about cooking screaming lobsters, here are the facts. The nervous system of a lobster is decentralized and has been compared to that of a grasshopper. From what we know, this means they probably feel little or no pain. They also have no vocal chords. The sound I may have heard is actually steam escaping from the shell as the lobster cooks. If you're still concerned about hurting the lobster, begin to cook it in cold water instead of hot. As the temperature rises, it will put the lobster to sleep. So will laying it on its back for a few minutes.'

It's because we bought it live in Menemsha, but I would only cook the potatoes,
and had to leave the room when he got the lobster into the pot and turned on the stove. So, that a lobster doesn't really scream, helps.
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Justinian

They fluenced me to
knowledge,
all their "don't
you feel it's right"s.

Soft decision, eighteen
years, which is
to say to come
sleepwalkwandering:

underage at twenty with
redwine poured throaty
blurred
road home, darked.

That series of names, of hands, of mouths
leaning
` my fishy lip wondering:
my failed opacity

My stranger, friend's lover, called
same who just
in jest, but fair, redeemed
six letters, saying,
"come,
we have roasted
chestnuts
and big christmas trees
with lights".