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Rated: E · Poetry · Young Adult · #1558847
Small poem.
Mussel

My crustacean organ
lies between barnacle bones.
A shrimp in size, a lobster in color,
it peers with its beady black eyes—
it lashes with its crab pincers.
One day it will clam over,
an oyster without a pearl.
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