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The Old Observatory
They were like a pair of gigantic bugs
With lobster claws and feet as soft as slugs;
Flattened features dotted leathery heads:
Lidless eyes and lipless mouths drooling shreds
Of whatever littered the floor upstairs—
An astronomer fallen in their snares?
No—the monsters were chewing and slurping
Something else that left them rudely burping.
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