if you’re going to boil a lobster, 
let me make a small suggestion
on a bright, Spring college morning, 
a beautiful young woman

            and I 

decided to embrace
a new adventure

let’s cook a lobster

her senior suite contained both
a stove and a fulsome pot 

we found a fresh fish market near
and purchased our brilliant red friend

the water boiled
the pot got hot

and then we made a great mistake

we put the tail into the pail
instead for the head

the sound of the scream resounds in a dream
that repeats and repeats
and

repeats