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Oyster Rights
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First Do No Harm
In Africa & Oesterreich
they honor all oyster rights
no more pearls stolen
from sweet oysters
.. untimely ripped
from secret cloisters
no more clusters
of stolen lustre
.. jewels of turtle shell
for turtles making hell
ivory chess sets
and buy ivory
they think elegant
chainsawed from tusks
of machinegunned
bull elephants
stolen tusks
and 36 musk oxen
castrated
for an ounce
of musk
castor from
the Canadian
beaver
ambergris from
sperm whale
fright hormones
from the Abyssinian
cat
a rising sea
of universal kindness
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CRAB CLAWS CRACKED
They crack the crab's claws
with metal claws..
as one 'uses a thorn
to remove a thorn'
but they do not love
the crab
...
do not them smother
make the way for them smoother
