You\u2019re like an Austin FX4 hackney carriage
\nin miniature: slow and expensive these days,
\nan oddity, like dulse or potted herrings.<\/p>\n
\u2022<\/p>\n
Between the pads of my thumb and my index
\nI pinch the pin, then flip out your operculum.
\nI hold that flimsy disk up to the sunlight<\/p>\n
and it becomes a-nazar-of-a peacock\u2019s eyespot.
\nI flick it away and curl you out, suck you in
\nand briefly chew, before swallowing whole<\/p>\n
your brainy body, like a keen snot-eating toddler.
\nYou leave behind a tail of ooze: that oceanic crap
\n\u2013\u2013so I eat it too\u2013\u2013then bin your empty exoskeleton.<\/p>\n
\u2022<\/p>\n
At Peggy\u2019s tavern the lads slurp hot bigorneaux<\/em> \u2022<\/p>\n I throw my hand into the pot and hoke out a willick, I say to a gastronome prospect, \u2018this\u2019s no mere escargot, Periwinkle You\u2019re like an Austin FX4 hackney carriage in miniature: slow and expensive these days, an oddity, like dulse or potted herrings. \u2022 Between the pads of my thumb and my index I pinch the pin, then flip out your operculum. I hold that flimsy disk up to the sunlight and it becomes a-nazar-of-a peacock\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[338,339],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nby the bucketload. Picture one on Harry\u2019s tooth-
\npick of ivory and onyx, like a mignon caduceus.<\/p>\n
\nlike a bitter old committeeman at a candidate ballot.
\nEvery ball is black. \u2018Our members\u2019 book is closed, sir,\u2019<\/p>\n
\ndowsed in garlic butter, that your da bred at his allotment.
\nWe\u2019re the last generation here. Find a prettier gastropod.\u2019
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"