LEGEND

LEGEND

if this were
a raw oyster

raw
meaning alive

how would you
plot to eat it
(that wickedly satirical
Dublin Dean
did
   commend the bravery
of he who
first ate one)

suppose
it an octopus
(but not
the bright blue variety)
what tactics
of attack
    strategy to render it
a culinary masterpiece

but what
if some tentacle which
shared
   its misfortune
by getting
stuck in your tract?

revenge masterstroke
gourmet karma

unless by
the trinity, shoot
back from the dead
in Mary Shelley moment

St Frankenstein
of Assisi, lately native
of Haight-Ashbury

lover transcendental
of every genus of animal

under whose jurisdiction
what could be
       beyond consideration

receptacle of life
         before cuisine Holy Grail?