Sashimi Combo

I can’t eat real animals. Too warm.

But there’s something about a fish-

Maybe the eyes.

But crabs and lobsters and shrimp…

And clams, too, and they don’t have eyes at all.

The salad is cold, the soup is hot.

Now that’s something I can understand.

I’ve always liked the ocean.

My dreams tell me that’s where I came from and so did we all.

I suppose that’s true, but

There musta been a time when we had no blood and the salt water flowed in its place.

That was when there were just little sort of creatures floating about and nothing had gotten too big.

We probably had to get blood once we needed out.

The ocean’s too heavy to carry around with you all the time.

This plating’s a bit much. It’s fun, though. If you like bamboo.

Eating fish raw sends you back in time,

Like you’re some sort of bear or man-ape who just plucked his harvest right from the icy stream and couldn’t even wait to cook it.

But there’s no salt in the mountain stream, it don’t really feel like home.

Not like the ocean.