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American Poetry Review, The, Jan/Feb 2005 by Dugan, Alan
Picked up, a hermit crab who seems
to curl up in a dead snail's shell
from cowardice, attacks the thumb
sustaining him in extraordinary air,
regardless, and if he is attacked
by borers or the other enemies of shells,
he crawls out, raw at the rear!,
to find a new place, thus exposed.
So, he does what is appropriate
within his means, within a case,
and fails: oh he could not bite off
the top whorl of my fingerprint,
although he tried. Therefore, I put
him back to sea for courage, for
his doing what he thinks he has to do
while shrinking, and to propitiate
my own incommensurate enemies,
the firms, establishment, and state.
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