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gummy worms
or so they seemed
distensible stomachs

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We thought the station had been taken over by worms, alien worms with mouths like garbage disposals, but they turned out to be the friends we knew. Alas, they did not know us.

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Life isn't so bad inside the worm. Rent is free, we get to travel, and the worm provides all the dirt we want.

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Why doth the worm cast out its work
Upon the cold wet ground
The castles builded from its bricks
Could make such clever mounds
From miles around the ants would flock
And never make a sound

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carrying worms
from puddle to grass
crawling back out

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worm-hides curing
on a stake palisade
guards in polychaete leather
armed with poisoned echinoid spears

distant dust
the intertidal delegation
conveys the Prince
to his new home
the splendor of the Tidepool Court!
the nudibranch quadrille!
the speckled cowrie gardens!
the tube-worm galleries!
He may not last long
but what a way to go!

everyone in the rude Court bereft
sheds a tear of longing
and dreams of royalty

Sick worm

Ooh, what did it eat?!