you have probably heard this before:
"A scorpion asks a frog to carry it over the river. The frog is afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they both would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees, but halfway across the river the scorpion stings the frog. With its last breath the frog asks why. The scorpion points out that this is its nature."
Do you ever feel like both the frog and the scorpion?
A frog-scorpion chimera,
stinging itself and sinking.
And you're sunk, a rex marinus
"Whosoever will free me from the waters and lead me to dry land, him will I prosper with everlasting riches." - Rex marinus
Sunken and finally still, you vegetate, becoming the plant like a flower with thorns, growing at the bottom of the sea.
This week a plant hybrid name is stuck in my head: "huervalia."
It is the names "huernia" and "duvalia" smooshed together: huer(nia)+(du)valia
Thanking of you,
ccsey