Intersection

Fish have something in them called a lateral line-this is what helps their schools stay together. When they want to stay still, they face upward. Into the current. Truth reversed does not make a lie. A lie reversed does not make truth. The truth of the person is different than the truth of the poem. You try to make a Venn diagram of this, but can't figure out what to put in the third circle or in the pill shape of the intersection. A certain type of ant collects the skulls of other ants to decorate their nests. There is a type of shark which new theories say may have a lifespan of up to six hundred years. In Greenland, one is caught which scientists estimate as being between two hundred and seventy-two years old and five hundred and twelve years old. There are certain types of crystals in the eyes of this shark. The oldest type of poetry is poetry with a riddle inside.

from issue #55