The little land crab stands right in the road,
Waving his big red claw.
Almost hit by a car rushing past –
Another, then one more.
The little crab stands fearless and alone,
He just won’t back away
And all the other crabs beside the road
Call out “¡Olé! ¡Olé!”
Robin Helweg-Larsen is Anglo-Danish by birth but Bahamian by upbringing. After dropping out of the University of Dundee because they weren’t teaching the meaning of life, he spent five years based in Copenhagen, working in factories and hitchhiking on four continents. After decades in British Columbia as a tax preparer, prison guard, etc, and in North Carolina as a simulation designer and management consultant, he has returned to blog at formalverse.com from the Bahamas.