In this world

In this world
these are all the sorts of crabs
we didn't know about
(says Ruby).

Crying crabs
mistake crabs and
paper clip crabs.
They scuttle scuttle scuttle
and steal paper clips.

The rule in this world:
you are not allowed to use
horseshoe crabs
for fishing bait.

It's sad: people are not
listening to the rules.
Like Magnus, who touched
the dressing-up during reading
and he touched it again
and he made a choice
and touched it
one more time.
He got into 10-50 trouble,
last-the-whole-year trouble.

It's sad that people don't learn the rules.
So they say yeah,
let's go out and kill
horseshoe crabs
and the god of sea
will get angry.