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The Cuttlefish Man
[from Five Stories Tall, vol. 1 (1989)]
I’d almost completed crossing the street
When something reached up and grabbed at my feet!
Two slimy tentacles wrapped round my legs—
My God! How they smelled like rotten old eggs!
I cried out and waved my arms in despair:
Alas! In the city, who is to care
If one tiny boy should slip out of sight,
Pulled into a storm drain, screaming with fright?
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