Sharks have a covering of dermal dentricals
that protect their skin from damage and parasites and
improve fluid dynamics. Fluid,
their movements, through pools of ocean dew
standing still on sea plants- plants that are really animals
with murky names like zooxanthellae,
which “live inside the
translucent fleshy tissue of many marine animals
including types of giant clams, nudibranchs and even jellyfish,”
and which, for this, are considered to be
parasites.
“For that matter, I’d call a baby a parasite,”
he said, referring to the fusion of gametes
to produce a new organism-
an organism which grows in-
side the “translucent fleshy tissue” of mommies
for many months,
only to plop out one day, slimy and red-
a perturbed little body that screams
hello to the world.
“You have been deceived into thinking that you have progressed,”
into the world of man, into the world of morals and dignity-
but we who hail from the family hominidae,
we who call ourselves
Homo Sapiens are, really, just bipedal primates-
zooxanthellae with lungs.
-Julia Kennelly
