“Consider the minnow, he lasts but a day,
And then an anchovy takes him away;
The anchovy’s happy, cavorts for a minute,
Along comes a mackerel, and them he is in it;
The mackerel will later, or probably sooner,
Be just a meal for a high-leaping tuna;
The law of the ocean from Nome to Bermuda,
Is dogfish eat catfish, then dodge barracuda.
The law of the land seems based on a notion
That’s too much akin to the law of the ocean.”
"Just One Thing After Another” —Ted Cook
And then an anchovy takes him away;
The anchovy’s happy, cavorts for a minute,
Along comes a mackerel, and them he is in it;
The mackerel will later, or probably sooner,
Be just a meal for a high-leaping tuna;
The law of the ocean from Nome to Bermuda,
Is dogfish eat catfish, then dodge barracuda.
The law of the land seems based on a notion
That’s too much akin to the law of the ocean.”
"Just One Thing After Another” —Ted Cook