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Row Pore Rope Sponge

from Ensonglopedia of Animals by John Hinton

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The riddle’s not solved
Of how we evolved
From our single-celled ancestors,
But zoologists have hunches
That the first ones were the sponges ,
And that we are all their sisters.

Gimme S! Gimme P! Take O N G! Gimme E!
And what have you got? Sponge!
It’s the root of our family tree!
Gimme ROW! Gimme PORE! Gimme ROPE! Gimme SPONGE!
And what have you got? Row pore rope sponge!
It’s the coolest cat in the sea!

The sponge deserves a double clap
For being the first to take the step
Towards feeding on organic material,
And that’s what differentiates
Us from all of our equally great
Cousin clades arboreal and bacterial.

Give it up for the sponge!
It’s not just a thing that you have in the bath
Let’s grab that sponge by its pores and plunge
Down our evolutionary path.

The sponge deserves a double clap
For putting animals on the map
By forming spheres of cells they call the blastula
A step that we now recognise
As ultimately giving rise
To a kingdom so diverse and so spectacular

Gimme S! Gimme P! Take O N G! Gimme E!
And what have you got? Sponge!
Most animals move but you can’t!
Gimme ROW! Gimme PORE! Gimme ROPE! Gimme SPONGE!
And what have you got? Row pore rope sponge!
You may look like a plant but you aren’t!

And now in ¾ row pore rope sponge
Gimme more, row pore rope sponge
I adore row pore rope sponge
Encore! Row pore rope sponge
Not poor row pore rope sponge
But cor! Row pore rope sponge
I adore row pore rope sponge
Encore! Encore! Encore! Encore!

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from Ensonglopedia of Animals, released October 15, 2018

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