WORK CONDITIONS: Some fishy thoughts about survival It's all about meat & who will eat Under the waves sum pretend there's harmony & peace but the oceans argh bloody huntin' grounds & places ah kunstant intrigue where creatures hide-n-seek ta exploit the weak No question - it's a jungle down below & pelagic awareness is in us (though we mask its snare) Learn to distinguish predator frum prey & remember anyone kun be terminated quickly without severance pay Andrei: (sighing) Hmm. . . Nothing optimistic here. Ellesha: On the material plane it's what we have: layer after layer of eating. Soo: There must be a way beyond it! Philyra: You can't get beyond it. All the chanting and bowing and praying is basically nonsense. All that we can do is make a heroic choice to fearlessly defend our core values. Jules: (laughing) Huh? Actually, I'm a bagel: my core is empty. Andrei: Zhat's the same as all of us. And I kun relate to zis poem – it reminds me of Dovlatov and Golding. ===================================================================================== from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A poem and drawing about unicellular algae and dialog about creative imagination. KEYWORDS: plankton, unicellular algae, Bacillariophycea, creative imagination Begun: 1996 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted by T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/mis.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/BlueEarth/octo.htm TRANSLATIONS: DEUTSCH: http://www.tnewfields.info/de/ergebnis.htm ESPAÑOL: http://www.tnewfields.info/es/diatom.htm FRANÇAIS: http://www.tnewfields.info/fr/diatom.htm NIHONGO: http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/keisou.htm