Crossing The Red Sí

El ocho patas was crossing

the Red Sí

when it crashed down

upon his head

as luck would have it

it didn’t hurt

his hard cabeza

but everybody

either sank

or swam like rats

while el pinche pharaoh

hung back with his posse

cursed Moses

and thumbed his nose

at what prose

he knew would be written

meanwhile el ocho patas

propelled by his marvelous eight feet

made it to shore

and lived better than mejor