Order up (humanity)

Today’s Twitter refreshment
is a story about how crustaceans
can feel pain. Tell me again how
we’re behind the times.

When science
catches up with this
express bus I’m on,
I’ll get my nerve endings
swapped with the sea scuttlers.

Our life expectancy is dropping
and the starfish and seashells
keep buying more stocks,
believing in us
and our manufactured market
demise.

Lauren Peter received a BA in Creative Writing from Metropolitan State University in Minnesota. You can find her on Twitter at @Eyes_LikeAChild.