Squid & Squalene #5 : Arms to Hold You

16" x 12" x 1.5"

Acrylic on Canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Winter’s Getaway 

In Quaint Hood River Town

With My Wife, Robin

We Enjoy the Sights and Sounds

 

We Take a Brisk Stroll

For Dinner We Do Search

Then Skimming Through the Menu

Robin Thinks of Perch

 

A Burger and Fries

Would Suit My Palette, Bland

Robin Orders Something Else

To Place at Her Command

 

The Waiter Brings Our Food

Sits it Before Us Two

I Look Across at Robin’s Plate

And Know Not What to Do

 

On Her Plate There Lies

Glowing, Purplish, Brownish, Gold

An Alien Form of Life

Quite Awesome to Behold

 

Is That Calamari

I Ask to Her in Doubt

It’s Just Its Friendly Cousin

Like Salmon is to Trout

 

I Say it Looks Disgusting

She Says it’s Yummy, Dear

It’s Just an Arm of Octopi

There’s Nothing Here to Fear

 

With its Savory Squalene

I Try to Hold My Breath

In Fear it Might Rise from Her Plate

And Strangle Me to Death!