Credit: Ahmed Abdul Rahman        The Octopus and the Fisherman [revised version]         A lobster paralysed   by venom   makes a fine meal for the octopus,   whose cephalopod beak   pierces clean   the lobster’s shell, splitting carapace   from meat.   And still the sea sings    with foamy lips .   If startled by shark   or stingray,   the octopus vanishes like magic —   a puff of ink,   or into coral colours it contorts,   bonelessly alien.   Still the sea sings    wit