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Livingston Rossmoor

Puffer Fish

From the book "Collected Triplets"

 


My other name is blow fish, I ingest air, 
water to blow my stomach into a ball, 
several times my size to warn predators. 

And they keep coming, my tetrodotoxin 
is lethal to fish, 1,000 times more poisonous 
than cyanide, enough to kill thirty men.

Still, I was captured. 

To read the rest of the poem, please click the link below to purchase the book "Collected Triplets" on Amazon.

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