Letters from a Brine Shrimp

Read this and talk amongst yourselves.

 

Letters from a Brine Shrimp

Mark Pearce (c) 2009

 

 

                I saw movement

                As I pressed my face against the glass

                Of this toilet you call home.

 

                You were

                Pulsing through aqua,

                Propulsion mechanisms too small to appreciate

                Let alone fully comprehend.

 

                With no prehensile tail,

                With no hair,

                Lacking primatial features,

                Still, we call you “monkeys.”

 

                No offense, but

                You looked much cuter

                In the comics.

 

                Still, I’m young and enthralled,

                Captured by persistence

                As you move from point A

                To point C with an intent –

                Indicating a degree of intelligence.

 

                So why haven’t you written me lately?

 

 

 

Author's Note

The marketing of "Sea Monkeys" was possibly one of the most "imaginative" campaigns in world history.

And we all fell for it.