by Wayne Wysocki
An unlikely pair of symbionts
In harmony do swim
Through sunny, tropic waters,
Beyond the coral rim;
'Tis strange, for one is monstrous
And one is like a lark;
How oddly they are mated,
The pilot fish and shark.
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