I'm the original two-hearted brawler. <br />I gnaw the scrawny heads from prawns, <br />pummel those mute, translucent crustaceans, <br />wingless hummingbirds, salt-water spawned. <br />As the Catalonians do, I eat the eyes at once. <br />My brawny palms flatten their mainstays. <br />I pop the shells with my thumbs, then crunch. <br /> <br />Just watch me as I swagger and sprawl, <br />spice-mad and sated, then dabble in lager <br />before I go strolling for stronger waters <br />down to Sloppy Joe's.My stride as I stagger <br />shivers the islands, my fingers troll a thousand keys. <br />My appetite shakes the rock of the nation. <br />The force of my fiction makes the mighty Gulf Stream.<br /><br />Campbell McGrath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hemingway-dines-on-boiled-shrimp-and-beer/
