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Film and Television Rights: Self-Portrait as a Jelly-Rat



Shoot the jelly-fish beginnings into rat zygote.
12 of 25 survive. 3 of 12's bald tails

glow under phosphorescent light-radiant ocean
depths in rat. Jelly-fish surfacing-no longer rat-

rat + jelly-fish = jelly-rat. Oocytes.
Enzymes. Marinade. Protean.

Imminent fertilization.
9 don't shine-less obvious combination:

One's weary of the hard surface beneath him-makes
him sick with vertigo-anticipates floating; Two folds his middle over his meal,

curious why it doesn't quietly dissolve; Three thinks the rest
are odd sharks-avoids the chomp-searches for the Gulf Stream;

Four through Nine are one mind with six bodies-
it believes it's pellucid, unapparent

god above predators and that it's safe.





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