pincers, white fluffy flesh <br />red hot, spicy shells <br />under our white <br />plastic hammers <br />each leg, pincer, <br />carapace broken <br />licked clean <br /> <br />the two eyes <br />now jutting out of <br />the auspicious <br />light as flight <br />red orange shell <br />so cleaned up of life <br />so meaningless <br />and emptied <br />of existence <br />a loser of <br />the world <br />except for <br />its rich delicious <br />steamy white <br />vein laced flesh <br /> <br />the shells <br />stripped of all the limbs <br />straddle the table <br />play out the animals in us <br />some are upside down <br />some in upright position <br />some helter skelter <br />loose signatures of the <br />delicious triumph of a two legged <br />over a ten legged wonder <br /> <br />now only our hands are <br />crawling all over the table <br />grabbing parts, positioning legs, <br />pincer for hammers <br /> <br />we are nothing <br />more than dinosaur <br />when it comes to crabs <br /> <br />they are but fluffy, juicy, spicy, <br />pulpy, squeaky rich protein to <br />fill up the stomach <br />to build the muscles <br />of our own limbs <br /> <br />more customers coming? <br />get ready the crabs <br />get ready the rice <br />and the hammers <br /> <br />how many of them please? <br />how many crabs? <br /> <br />ketam ketam ketam <br />plankwalk that make <br />our walk sound crab <br />and.....dinosaur <br /> <br />Ketam is the malay word for crabs. pulau ketam is an island 30 minutes away from port klang in selangor. port klang is about an hour by commuter train from kuala lumpur and the same amount of time if one drives in one's own car. the island is famous for its seafood. the wooden plankwalk to the numerous restaurants makes one's walk sound crab because it goes ketam ketam ketam.<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/visit-malaysia-year-poem-pulau-ketam-state-of-selangor/
