I am my Facebook page
A list of lists
I am a picture with a filter
A tag in someone else's post
I am my SAT score
An expensive page with bullet points
I am my resume
A copy/paste letter of intent
I am my gym membership
A stack of metal I pick up to feel powerful
I am the downward dog
A first place medal in a race against no one
I am my credit score
A bank account that will never be full
I am a debt report
A numerical risk and reward
I am my insurance plan
A walking blood bag: Type O -
I am homeostatic, for now
Organ donor printed on plastic
I am a *****sapien
An old primate chasing insects
I am evolution
The self-proclaimed best of the hominids
Here's a question that I wish
to ask about a zebrafish
No, not about how it looks --
I can use the Internet or books
I want to know just how despite
missing eyelids to block its sight
this little fish of black and white
manages to sleep at night
So I looked and found some information
regarding homeostatic regulation
And if you ask me what that is
I'll reply with this analysis
We see in most land-based creatures
this constantly occurring feature
That if deprived of sleep one night
animals tend to set it right
They make up their sleep the next few rounds
a trait the scientists call 'sleep rebound'
And now I have some news for you --
That's precisely what zebrafish do
As well, when asleep they float in place
as if they're staring off into space
They float horizontal or head up slightly
and I learned, they do this nightly
So, I'm happy that my wish was granted
~ and that zebrafish don't sleep slanted
from when Adam bombed
to Atom bombs
the whirled has stayed the same
mite against might
rights against right
fight after fight
blight after plight
alls well
and all swell
and all normal as well
mammal man and Mammon
and the Devil in hell
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