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Fugu (Pufferfish) MAG

August 1, 2021
By ray13575 SILVER, Troy, Michigan
ray13575 SILVER, Troy, Michigan
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Who reached into the dark abyss

in search of the ocean’s opulence?

 

Spherules filled with water

in a cadence with the silent waves

 

Who knew mother nature

laced its body with flares of toxin

 

Delicate blades pierced and sliced

rubbery skin glued to its flesh

 

Who mistook this fragile creature, scaled with tiger stripes

Becoming foreign delicacy


Carefully crafted hands manifested years of rehearsal

tugged away its papery gills

 

Who dared to touch its fatal flesh

morphing with these tides 

 

Delicate escalopes of pearly sashimi laid upon the plate

salty from sea of tears

 

Who crushed its bones and tugged the skeleton

carcass, empty, barren, worthless


Mother Nature humors irony

left powerless

its liver, bladder, and eyes swelled

as heedful fingers

tossed away fugu’s delicate threads of vengeance



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