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A caustic emotion
Muddies the water
Like a belch of octopus ink
Before it is slaughtered
A desperate squirt
In vain protection
Leaves the animal
In disorientation
And in this swirl
Of black catastrophe
The octopus becomes
Its worst enemy
And so it swims
Right into the trap
As jaws thud closed
With a thunderous clap
Dawn & Dusk 
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