Excerpt From Love at Sea
- author unknown
...Then the pop-eyed cook took a pop-eyed look,
And he saw what we came to see.
The courtship swoon by a midnight moon
Of an Octopus he and she.
They kissed on the lips and the slithery hips,
They kissed on the suction cups.
And they bobbed in the brine like a ball of twine
Til at last the bosun ups
And he shouts, "I'm Dutch, but I never saw such
Sweet love on Valentine's Day!"
Then arm in arm... in arm... in arm...
The Octopi swam away.
(No 'arm intended)