Open Thread: Shrimp and Beer

Hosted by sauteed shrimp

Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer

I'm the original two-hearted brawler.

I gnaw the scrawny heads from prawns,

pummel those mute, translucent crustaceans,

wingless hummingbirds, salt-water spawned.

As the Catalonians do, I eat the eyes at once.

My brawny palms flatten their mainstays.

I pop the shells with my thumbs, then crunch.

Just watch me as I swagger and sprawl,

spice-mad and sated, then dabble in lager

before I go strolling for stronger waters

down to Sloppy Joe's.My stride as I stagger

shivers the islands, my fingers troll a thousand keys.

My appetite shakes the rock of the nation.

The force of my fiction makes the mighty Gulf Stream. 

- Campbell McGrath

I don't particularly care for Hemingway (as a writer or a person), but I have to admit this poem charmed me :)

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