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"Fins."

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Imposters in the water,
we look ridiculous.

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But who's watching us?

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Plastic fins and masks,
false skin zipped on

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to protect from cold,
pallid faces down

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on the platter of the sea.

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We are nothing like the orange
anemone glued to rock wall,

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combing the slosh with its--

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what?

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Tentacles?

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But then again, the
anemone is an animal,

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pretending to be a plant.

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The sea lion is a mammal,
pretending to be a fish.

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The marine iguana, a lizard,
pretending to be an eel.

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Parrotfish, surgeonfish,
sergeant major, harlequin

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wrasse, fakers all, or so
are words would make them.

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Because we can't
quite believe the luck

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to be a thing with eyes, looking
at anything else with eyes.

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Can't quite bear the weight
of our terrestrial burden.

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So we float and
kick, heads down,

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imagining what we might
have been or will become.

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