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Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

from Ensonglopedia of Animals by John Hinton

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You must be
The most beautiful slug in the sea.
Are you the slug for me?

When you crawl,
You resemble a Spanish shawl,
And I hope you don’t mind if I call
You the sweetest slug of all.

People tell me that it’s odd
To fall in love with a gastropod,
But those who so demean you,
Clearly haven’t seen you.

To be frank,
If I had you in my tank,
You’d outrank every other nudibranch.

What a sight!
You’re exciting my appetite:
An exquisite hermaphrodite
In which both boy and girl unite.

Your rows of bright orange cerata
Extract oxygen from the water,
But perhaps I should beware of your cnidosacs
With which you sting anything that attacks.

I’m in thrall
To the call of the Spanish Shawl
And I hope you evade the fisherman’s trawl.

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from Ensonglopedia of Animals, released October 15, 2018

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