In my son’s house there’s a fish tank
Where there currently reside
Five fishes swimming happily.
(A sixth one, sadly, died.)
Today I noticed something new,
A little mesh-type cage
Suspended in the tank for reasons
I could not quite gauge.
Until I looked more carefully
And, much to my surprise,
Two baby fish were hiding;
As a tactic, very wise.
I learned their one-time siblings
Hadn’t lasted very long,
Being gobbled by the grown-ups
Which, of course, seems very wrong.
But we can’t judge their behavior
Or compare it to our own,
For we humans pamper offspring -
Well, at least ‘til they are grown!
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