FEEDING FRENZY
Never swim alone in Shark Park!
(An ode to the class Selachii)
Hammerhead said to Fatuous Fred,
"Hunger compels me to make you quite dead,
By biting off pieces of your adipose head."
Mako cried, "Sure!,
With flesh so marbled and pure,
That it makes a great lure,
Let him be the focus of our epicurean tour."
Tiger agreed, and with plentiful need,
Proceeded to gnaw on his toes, and thence to feed,
On his shins, and his Chins, and so Fred did bleed.
So the oceans were filled with message decreed:
"Come to the banquet with rampant Godspeed."
So came Grey, and Leopard, and Nurse and Great White,
To find for themselves something to bite.
And then there ensued a great Crimson food-fight
And the ocean became a cloudy red night.
And so Fred was consumed but they knew it not.
And the way of the Cannibal became their lot;
The time of the Prey-fish with extinction was fraught.
But Basking and Whale, feeding on plankton so pale,
Said, "They've locked themselves in the Great Stomach's jail."
And asked the question, dead to the bone:
"What if the food Chain eats all of its own?"
Nothing ventured;
Nothing gained:
Nothing remained!
EXEUNT OMNES
Contributed by:
spud@dhawk.vt.com
<Thomas Voxfire>
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