Amazing Octopus

Beneath the deep blue ocean waves In coral crevices, holes and caves Exists a creature of the deep There upon the rocks to creep While through the water he jet propels With muscles that contracts and swells This invertebrate is soft and pliant From smallest to the biggest giant With bulbous head and eyes with slits It waits and watches using wits Anticipating its prey to grasp And then with suction caps to clasp With no bones to keep its form It can change and so transform And squeeze into the smallest spaces Into tiny fissures and thin ledge places With eight long arms and caps in rows If losing one a new one grows And when afraid or to confuse They squirt out ink a flawless ruse Or change their color with special cells Intent on using magic spells Their blood is colored blue not red They have two eyes upon their head Inside their gills and body parts They have three beating, blood filled hearts Their intelligence is far superior To other fish, that are inferior They have good memories, both long and short And can learn new tricks if they’re taught A shark it can so easily kill By holding it so very still With camouflage it can achieve A form and shape that can deceive They have an excellent sense of touch The Devilfish its other name An octopus, yet just the same