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by vishnusprings_Archive
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERSEven from the beach I could sense it ”lack of welcome, lack of abiding life,like something in the air, a certainlack of sound. Yesterdaythere was a mountain out there.Now it s gone. And lookat this radio, each tube neatlysliced in half. Blow the place up!That was my advice.But after the storm and the earthquake,after the tactic of the exploding planeand the strategy of the sinking boat, it lookedlike fate and I wanted to say, œDon t you see?So what if you re a famous biochemist!Lost with all hands is an old story. Sure, we re on the edgeof an important breakthrough, everyonehearing voices, everyone fallinginto caves, and you re outwandering through the jungle in the middle of the night in your negligee.Yes, we re way out thereon the edge of science, while the restof the island continues to disappear untilnothing s left except thiscliff in the middle of the ocean,and you, in your bathing suit,crouched behind the scuba tanks.I d like to tell younot to be afraid, but I ve lostmy voice. I m not used to all theselegs, these claws, these feelers.It s the old story, predictableas fallout ”the rearrangement of molecules.And everyone is surprisedand no one understandswhy each man tries to killthe thing he loves, when the changecomes over him. So now you knowwhat I never found the time to say.Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower.You know I always loved you.-Lawrence Raab