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Thickened Spit

a meal found afloat high in the water tasted nasty tasted super salty he tightened up into a huge ball and gave his best spit but it went back over his head and the jellyfish said to a coral one day this sea is getting thicker saltier I think it is drying up going away we must hurry and need to survive all work together to evolve keep our selves alive build a shell around me from all that is you two holes so I can see enlist the help of your whole family I will hold young tubes together until plankton spreads all gaps with their stretchy bond I will protect all and grow a skin in the sun together we will walk out of this brine take our own salty liquid and hold it inside I will make a filter and a place to process food from land throw away my stingers but keep the points for my wit and in a few hundred million years or so we can write poems about spit

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