The Tortoise and the Crab: Part 3
“I’m going to challenge that foolish tortoise again, Mister Hare!”
The crab said the next day
While the sun was out
And he and hare were standing outside
In front of their tiny green lawn
“No! You can’t crab! It’s too risky! You’ll just lose again, and fall into depression!!”
“Don’t worry about me, hare! I’ll do just fine in the race tomorrow! You just watch me!!”
The hare groaned, defeated
“Ok. Well, whatever you say. But don’t say I didn’t warn you, you damn crab.”
So, crab went off to the races
Instead of going to sleep
Inside Mr. Hare’s stone home
He met the tortoise again
A tortoise that was
Putting on a show of bravado
While wearing
His purple tuxedo
“Well, I see a CRAB has come back to challenge me!”
“I’m not defeated so easily, tortoise.”
“Well, you’re going to be crab.”
“No, I’m not!”
“Yes, you are!”
The race began
Mr. Crab was just wearing his pajamas
He imagined himself as a superhero
Flying ahead to beat the tortoise
The way his mentor-
The hare-
Had failed to do,
All those moons ago
He was probably indoors
Inside his stone “shack”
Getting drunk right now
Mr. Crab didn’t want to end up like that
Even though he respected and admired
His mentor
So he ran....
And lost
To a freakin tortoise....
AGAIN
“Ha ha! I told you that you would be beaten by me!! Ha ha!!”
The tortoise laughed in his face,
After the race was complete
The crab was
ANGRY!!
He sent a PUNCH with his claws
One of
EPIC PROPORTIONS
And accidentally
KILLED
THE TOTUISE DEAD!!
“Oops. Guess I’m a murderer now!”
The crab proudly exclaimed,
Happy with inappropriate glee
At the death
Of that annoying,
Troublesome,
Slow tortoise
Bastard
Oh, what a disturbed, mentally unstable crab he was!
“I need to get out of here!”
AND THEN....
HE RAN!!....
But he left the body
Not the brightest crustacean in the ocean,
He certainly seemed to be....