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.


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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A conversation, poem, and graphic manipulation about social Darwinism and underwater ecosystems.
KEYWORDS: interspecies competition, underwater survival, William Golding, social Darwinism, Sergey Dovlatov

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]

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