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Animal Hour
swift silk blue strand standing under sky's shade a trade for murky depths of soulless dark water mother now air to breathe we lose our gills and crawl harsh dust storming savannah grasses in flat jungle cries surprise and danger follows invisibly scramble into holes wait wait gone and we hunt again games in icy water slide plunge nip curl and fly through and among 'bergs see the narwhals hear click click squeak and play games again ponder silent depths hearsee cousins large and wonderous miles away hearsee humans hunting dread noises whooosshh at surface feel the sharp needle in your back and die yes good eat-smell nectar find return to hive show and tell the smell and distance return again with workers to harvest long live the queen smoke oh smoke robbers human robbers sleepy and sleepy and bzzzzz
