Amoeba & Ape
by Julia Cohen and Mathias Svalina
The amoeba is the smartest animal. The amoeba got so smart because it sucked the memory out of all the elephants & sucked the science out of all the beakers. When you put an amoeba in a stagnant pool it soon knows all there is to understand about anaerobic activity. When you bring an amoeba to a company picnic he quickly becomes better friends with all your coworkers than you are. When an amoeba dies all the other amoebae gather around the dead one & feed on it until there is nothing left but a clean casket, which is then buried deep below the black earth.
How will you lighten the earth? We must learn something from stagnation or else we will wilt like love lies dying in a vase. The amoeba means tradition. The memories are the facts of tin & copper. The knowledge is the earth. The casket could mean any one of four things. One: the blue pool at the bottom of the canyon is actually a grave. Two: the pool at the bottom of the canyon is sacred & none of the local children will bathe in it. Three: the local children bathe in the pool at the bottom of the canyon every day. Four: we sway.
An ape is not an inside-out human, as the scientists would have you believe. Neither is an ape the color of a mop bucket. Mop buckets come in many, many colors. Apes have one color: ape.