Here is a eulogy I wrote for my Sea-Monkeys when they all perished in a tragicomic accident. Life is short, friends.
You swam in the palm of bright salty life
With peppery eyes and long waving tails
But this life that so seemed to hold you securely
The dark grasp of death now against it prevails
Dull are your eyes that once glimmered faintly
And held the whole world in your minuscule view
Still are your tails that once waved so freely
And black are the waters that sparkled so blue
Death’s cold iron talons caught you and held you
In the small violent waves and the algae and foam
But the water that carried you now will receive you
In the calm starry waves may you find yourself home
Caroline
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USA