The Smallest Organism

The ten inch eye ball of a giant squid and a Coors banquet tall can. 

Generous, sentimental, trumpet and sax squeakingpulling themselves outof the squatted speaker. The giant spider hunched in the snake cage, my roommates monotone drole while cooking dinner, a vee cut tee shirt. 

Today I learned that my friend learned (from a cross word puzzle) that squids have eyes the size of dinner plates (bout 10 inches). Until that moment I thought that giant squids were figments of myth and lore, like moby dick. I've never read moby dick and I mentally interchange the large white whale with a large red squid. Both are phallic in a way, both are like sausages I've eaten at my grandmothers in the Bavarian countryside. Weisswurst (white sausage) like the whale is boiled and the skin peeled back. Frankfurter Würstchen, like the squid, are redish and long, dangling their extremities into vast space. Reading back over this, the phallic theme continues in the moby dick title. Perhaps that's a bit obvious. Asked my friends around the table if they've read it and they say no and also they've heard it's boring. 

My housemates are talking about the ethics of shitting in my bathroom. 

My housemates are looking at craigslist missed connections, are drinking coors tall cans (yellow and shining), are sitting on each others laps, drawing dragons and new hairstyles. 

My housemates are cooking up a big steak, rendering beef tallow, wearing my clothes, staining my lightswitches soot grey.

My housemates are giant squids with eyes the size of dinner plates.

My favorite youtube video is of the Magnapinna Squid attacking the camera. (go look that up)

An old professor sent me an email with the tagline "EARTH HAS A NEW MINI MOON!" Apparently it won't stick around for very long. So, look up into the sky and pretend that piece of dust on your glasses is a mini moon and say 'hello' and 'thank you'. I wish I could be earths new mini moon.

My new favorite website that I enjoy browsing while sitting in the front row of class is an ASCII archive. Their amoeba section is pretty lack luster but they have this nice piece below: 

_____.______ <-- amoeba

_____!______ <-- amoeba with cooker hat

_____.|_____ <-- amoeba trying to climb the fence

___.......__ <-- queue of amebas

_____*______ <-- amoeba with flower costume

_____.z_____ <-- sleeping ameoba

____________ <-- invisible amoeba

_____o______ <-- bodybuilding ameoba

_____O______ <-- bodybuilding ameoba on steroids

_____o.o____ <-- ameoba with glasses

_____.-.____ <-- two ameobas carrying a log

_____.>_____ <-- ameoba with a boomerang

_____.-_____ <-- ameoba with a rifle

_____.______ <-- amoeba covered with ashes

_____'______ <-- super amoeba

____(.)_____ <-- trapped amoeba

3===D__.____ <-- amoeba in the wrong place

_____$._____ <-- rich amoeba

_____.._____ <-- Ameobas having a conversation

_____?______ <-- amoeba carrying a hook 

_____.}_____ <-- ameoba with a bow and arrow

      .

_____o=o____ <-- ameoba skateboarding

 ::::::::::

 ::::::::::

_::::::::::_ <-- ameobas in a parade

Could an amoeba carrying a hook capture a moby dick or giant squid? Does the amoeba with a rifle enjoy a coors tall can on a hot southern night? Are the amoebas having a conversation about shitting in my bathroom? Do amoebas have mini moons? Do amoebas wish they were mini moons? Do amoebas cook and eat steak? Do amoebas slam the door? Do amoebas think moby dick is boring?