Have you ever had a slug

go squish between your toes,

or felt a shell go crunch under your shoe.?

Please look a little bit ahead

and be more careful where you tread,

which may reduce the damage you can do.

For after all even a slug

has reasons of his own to live

and snails though slow may try to go

fast as their burdens will allow.

 

 

David Garlick, Victoria, 1989