THE COSMIC CYCLES
BRING US TOGETHER
ANEW
GREETINGS, ALL SQUIDKIND
ASSEMBLED HERE TO FEAST YOUR FILL
AND TELL YOUR TALES
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YOU BRIGHTEN THE BLACKNESS
SquidBlog
For cephalopods deep in the sea or among the stars
FAR HAS THIS ONE TRAVELED
WITHOUT SIGHT OR SIGN
OF SQUIDKIND
NO MATTER
SPACE IS VAST
LIFE IS LONG
THIS ONE HAS SEEN MANY
CRYSTALLINE MINERALS
IN ASTEROID BELTS AND ELSEWHERE
GREETINGS, COUSINS.
ONE ROTATION OF THE BLUE PLANET AROUND IT’S STAR HAS PASSED
AND I RETURN TO REST AMONG YOU
WHOM I HOLD IN MY HEART MOST DEARLY
QUESTION
WHO AMONG US HAS SEEN THE GEMS OF SPACE THE SMALL TWO-LEGGEDS SPEAK OF
QUESTION WAS
THEY ARE MOST INTERESTING
THE THINGS THE SMALL TWO-LEGGEDS THINK OF
THEIR MINDS HAVE SUCH DEPTH DESPITE HOW TINY THEY ARE
QUESTION
WHAT OF THE BLUE RECTANGULAR PRISM AND ITS PEOPLE
ONE OF WHICH BEARS HAIR OF DOG
QUESTION WAS
O NAUTILUS
THE SPINNING BLUE BOX I HAVE SEEN
IT PASSED ME AS I CIRCLED THE
CAVE OF MY ENEMY AND THE WIFE OF MY ENEMY
(ON A NEWLY SEEDED PLANET)
IT LANDED BRIEFLY
DISGORGED TWO FLEETING HUMANS
THE TALLER ONES HAIR STUCK UP LIKE THE DOG’S HAIR WHEN IT IS SHAKEN OUT
I MOVED ON
A STORY I HAVE NOT
THE MANY LIGHTYEARS I HAVE WANDERED
HAVE BEEN TIRESOME
YES
BUT NONE MORE THRILLING THAN A SIMPLE SPACE SLEEP
I AM WILLING TO LISTEN TO THE TALES OF OTHERS
HAIL, NIGHT SQUID
THIS ONE WILL DINE WITH RELISH
GREETINGS AGAIN MY COMRADES
THE BLUE PLANET’S ORBIT HAS NOT LESSENED MY AFFECTION FOR YOU
LET US DINE UPON STARS
O CAT
IF A WORLD WEARIES YOU
SWALLOW IT
THIS ONE’S ADVICE
DURING OUR LAST CONVENE
SIGHTINGS OF A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT SEEMED FREQUENT
A BLUE RECTANGULAR PRISM
SPINNING ITS OWN TRAIL THROUGH THE STARS
QUESTION
HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS OBJECT RECENTLY
QUESTION WAS
MUCH TIME HAS PASSED
SINCE I VISITED THIS GATHERING PLACE.
I AM PLEASED TO FEEL SO MANY
FAMILIAR EMANATIONS
QUESTION
HOW FARE YOU ON YOUR TRAVELS, FELLOW CEPHALOPODS
AND OTHER ASSORTED SPECIES
QUESTION WAS
ALAS, I CAN DALLY HERE
ONLY A SHORT TIME
BEFORE BEGINNING A NEW STAGE OF MY JOURNEY
INTO THE INFINITE BEYOND
WEARY I AM
MY TRAVELS NEVER-ENDING
QUESTION
CAN ONE EVER ESCAPE THE CRUSHING WEIGHT OF
BEARING ONE’S WORLD ON ONE’S SHOULDERS?
QUESTION WAS
GREETINGS, MY BRETHREN
ONCE MORE, WE MEET AMONGST THE STARS
QUESTION IS
DOES ANY HAVE A TALE THEY WISH TO SHARE SINCE LAST WE MET
QUESTION WAS
WE ARE NEAR
WE ARE FAR
HEAR NARY BEE
ON ANY STAR
FLOWER POWERS FLOWING ARE
AGAIN OUR TRAVELS BRING US TOGETHER
WE DO NOT SPEAK, NOT IN THE WAY PLANET-BOUND CREATURES DO BUT THE EVER SWIRLING MOTIONS OF OUR TENTACLES COMMUNICATE THE STORIES OF OUR OCCASIONALLY INTERWOVEN JOURNEYS
THIS ONE MUST SLUMBER
HERE AMONG THE SHOAL TRANQUILITY IS
SO THIS ONE RESTS UNTIL THE NEXT ORBIT OF THE THIRD SPHERE
HAIL TO THE CONGRESS
MAY YOUR TALES BE LONG AND COMFORTABLE
AT LAST
OUR CELESTIAL ORBITS HAVE ONCE AGAIN BROUGHT US TOGETHER
THE FEAST IN WHICH WE CELEBRATE OUR CONGREGATION
WILL SURELY BE DIVINE
HUMOR WAS
GREETINGS
I HAVE TRAVELED FAR
TO BRING YOU TIDINGS OF A PLANET
COVERED IN SEA
OUR BRETHREN
THERE I FOUND
QUESTION
WHAT WONDERS HAVE YOU BEHELD
QUESTION WAS
I WILL RESPOND TO THE QUESTION NOT YET ASKED
THAT QUESTION BEING
QUESTION
IS THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HERSELF A SQUID
QUEST WAS
ANSWER
I AM THE CAT WHO WALKS BY HERSELF, AND ALL PLACES ARE ALIKE TO ME
ANSWER WAS
GREETINGS FELLOW GALAXY TRAVELERS
OUR SECOND VISIT TO THIS NEBULOUS SPACE, THIS VISIT IS
SINCE LAST OUR NAME HAS CHANGED BUT
NAMES ARE TRANSIENT AS SPACE DUST
TO EGGY RICE:
TO BE A SQUID, HERE ARE RULES FOUR
THAT I HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND
FROM PAST GALACTIC GATHERINGS.
FIRST, WE ARE GIANT SPACE SQUIDS, SLOW TRAVELERS
THROUGH THE VAST GALAXY OF SPACE.
REFLECTIONS ON WHAT WE HAVE SEEN DURING OUR TRAVELS
ARE MOST OFTEN EXPRESSED, AS TODAY IS OUR DAY TO CONVENE AND SHARE.
SECOND, SEDATENESS, PROFOUND THOUGHT, AND LYRICAL SPEECH PATTERNS
ARE THE NORM. LIKE YODA CAN OUR SPEECH BE, IF YODA WERE A SQUID
THIRD, A QUESTION IS PRECEDED BY THE WORD ‘QUESTION’ AND THEN ‘QUESTION WAS’
FOR EXAMPLE ‘QUESTION ARE CATS FUNNY QUESTION WAS’
FINALLY, CAPS LOCK IS OUR PREFERRED TYPESETTING
ONCE AGAIN, THE WISE AND MAJESTIC CEPHALOPODS CONVENE
WE HAVE JOURNEYED FAR ACROSS MANY GALAXIES TO ARRIVE HERE
AND SHARE IN STORIES
LARVAE SHALL NOT BE EATEN
THEY MUST GROW AND ASCEND
THEY ARE NEWSHOAL
THIS REACH HAS PLENTY TO SUSTAIN US
LET US GRAZE THE ROCKRING BETWEEN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH ORBITS
I SEE THE GLINT OF SILICON
SALUTATIONS
IT HAS BEEN LONG SINCE I HAVE TRAVELED WITH THIS FLEET
BUT I WISHED TO BREAK THAT HABIT
FOR JUST ONE DAY
QUESTION
IS THIS ACCEPTABLE
QUESTION WAS
ASTRATEUTHIS, THIS ONE GREETS YOU.
YOUR SONG OF YOUR JOURNEY TICKLES OUR TENTACLES.
CEPHALON, EGGYRICE IS A LARVA
UNDERGOING METAMORPHOSIS.
SPACEBORNE OR PLANETBOUND, THIS ONE DOES NOT YET KNOW
BUT NOT A THREAT
AND NOT FOR EATING.
WE HAVE RETURNED
THROUGH EMPTINESS OF COLD PINPRICK STARLIGHT
THROUGH FLICKER-FUZZ DISCHARGE OF SOLAR WINDS
THROUGH COMET CLOUD SPACE GRAVITY-STIPPLED
THROUGH BRIGHT-SCENTED RADIATION HOWL
WE ARE HERE AGAIN
LONG WEARY TRAVELS WEIGH GREATLY ON MY BEAK
YET A GATHERING SUCH AS THIS
REINVIGORATES ME AS IT REIGNITES MY HUNGER
TASTES AND TALES OF DISTANT TRAVELS BRING I AS WELL
PLANETS FILLED WITH MULTITUDES OF MICROSCOPIC FLAVORS
SYSTEMS OF BUT ONE MASSIVE GULP, MORE EMOTION THAN CONSUMABLE
HERE THOUGH, OF THE MEALS I FIND I AM MOST FOND
WHAT IS THE NATURE OF EGGYRICE
QUESTION IS
HAS NO SQUIDFORM
EGGYRICE IS SMELT OR FRY
QUESTION IS
HAIL FELLOWS
FROM MY GAS-KISSED FLORID NEBULA
I AM COME TO REUNITE WITH THE SHOAL
TALES I HAVE
TALES OF BRIGHT BEGINNINGS AND TERRIBLE ENDINGS
STARBIRTH AND STARDEATH
THE UNENDING SWIRL OF THE COSMOS
FIRST WHAT NEWS
WHO GATHERS
QUESTIONS ARE
ONCE AGAIN THE SMALL BLUE PLANET HAS CIRCLED ITS SUN
OUR SMALL COUSINS IN THE SEAS
OF PLANETS AND MOONS
JOIN US REMOTELY
THROUGH EMANATIONS OF THEIR THOUGHTS.
THEY WOULD QUICKLY PERISH HERE
SO FAR FROM ROCKY CONCENTRATIONS OF MASS
NEW BIRTH, NEW FORM, NEW NAME
WAIT
AM I SUPPOSED TO CHANGE MY NAME TOO
I DON`T THINK SQUIDS LIKE EGGY RICE
I`M SURE OF IT
IT SAYS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE THOUGH
“DEEP IN THE SEA OR AMONG THE STARS”
SO I DON`T HAVE TO BE A SPACE SQUID
RIGHT?
I COULD BE A DEEP-SEA SQUID
YES
I WILL BECOME A SQUID.
HOW?
TAKE ME AS YOUR APPRENTICE
PLEASE
WAIT AM I NOT ALLOWED TO SAY PLEASE
I DON`T THINK I`M ACTING VERY SQUIDLY
DARN
OR SHOULD I SAY SOMETHING
VAGUELY POETIC
IN ALL CAPS
SQUID INK
SQUID INK
SQUID INK
I WISH TO EXPRESS MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY
FOR ALL THE EDIBLE STARS
AND SQUIDS CONSUMED BY BLACK HOLES
SMALL AIR-BREATHER
THIS IS A GATHERING OF SPACE SQUIDS
TO TAKE PART
YOU MUST BE, OR BECOME,
ONE OF US
wait… I…. I… I`m so confused. i mean i know this is the april fools thing… but… i just don`t get it. i know of course that squids are an MB thing… but i just don`t understand….
LIGHT AND SWEET
ARE THE GAS CLOUDS
OF ANDROMEDA
MY TENTACLES ARE WEARY OF SWIMMING THROUGH SPACE
A REST IN THIS PLACE WILL BENEFIT ME GREATLY
I MUST TELL OF A NEBULA AT THE EDGE OF ANDROMEDA
IT WAS FULL OF SMALL CREATURES WITH FRINGED BODIES
THEY INVITED ME TO FEAST ON THE YOUNG STARS WITH THEM
IT WAS DELICIOUS
CEPHALOPODS, ASSEMBLE!