The Unspecified Crustacean* peers out from his hidey hole in the soft sand of the beach. It’s morning! Time to survey the flotsam the tide brought during the night.  He treads carefully out onto the sand, but, wait! Danger, Unspecified Crustacean! Are those seagulls in the distance?  The Unspecified Crustacean scurries back to the safety of his hidey hole.  

Ah, but not for long.  The flotsam still requires surveying — and he isn't getting any younger.  Our intrepid crustacean gathers up his courage, eases out into the sun, and makes his way through the landscape of tiny sand dunes.  

Cresting a ridge, suddenly sees everything around him!  Palm trees are swaying in the breeze.  Large waves crash on the distant coral reef.  All is the blue and green of Caribbean waters, the brown of warm sand, the azure sky, and white cotton puffs of clouds. Utter ecstasy!  The Unspecified Crustacean breaks into a tango!

Yes! An Unspecified Crustacean tango! 

Well, that is to say, it is at least as much of a tango as he can manage.  He is, after all, just a crustacean, a subphylum not especially known for their Latin dance skills … but still!

Finishing his dance, full of sunlight and joy,  but once again wary of the possibility of seagulls,  the Unspecified Crustacean returns to his hidey hole,  and takes shelter from the coming heat of the day.

Thoughts of his tango** return with him though; perhaps tomorrow, (yes! tomorrow!) he will dance again under the sun. Until then, siesta†.

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* Unspecified Crustaceans belong to the subphylum Crustacea, and form a large, diverse group of arthropods including decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods, and mantis shrimp, just so you know. 

** Crustaceans have never won any international Latin dance competitions. Like, was that even a tango?  Maybe more like a samba? Or a Bossa Nova? Anyway, hope springs eternal for our brave Unspecified Crustacean.

† Tombstone City: 21st Century is a single-player multidirectional shooter written by John C. Plaster for TI-99/4A home computer and published by Texas Instruments in 1981.

Learning A Bit More

Unspecified Crustacean - Tombstone City Tango Mix

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trunkful of chainsaws

bleep blorp life support

gobbledygook

The Search

Light Sensitive

feminist cyborg 
made of stone 
can you lay naked 
with no prose 

genderless alien 
made of wraps and bones 
do you tire
of rejecting my love ?

long as I stay here 
I’ll deny my name
time and time again 
Ill fall 
fall deep to envy 
with the way that you are
eternal, lovely, and far 

all ripped out 
i see nothing 

Every day
I can tell
I can tell

by the cell 
I see nothing

every day
I can tell
I can tell


all ripped out
I see nothing 

I am scared
you’re my savior

can’t 
bleed
But grows tired
of no self esteem 

goes 
admired 
broken seams
cut by men’s desire

lamb
bloody guts are cleaned
you awaken 
angry 

and Your body sours
and Your body sours
and Your body sours
and Your Body sours

feminist cyborg - demo

[Verse]

I'm sick and dreamt of you this evening
No memory of your face at which to stare
Knew it wasn't real when you cried "sorry"
Your voice like bullets cutting through the air

Strange to think I ever knew to love you
But can't recall the way we spoke before
My body understands that I don't want to 
Still it shakes...
Thus..
I'll write to you and kill my brain once more

[Chorus]

I can't say I wish you well
That'd only be harming myself
Angry, drunk, and out of spells
Tu penses a moi, je pense a elle 

I don't even love you anymore
But all the pain from summer '24
Haunts me deep within my soul
Even if you're hazy, faded, unconsoled

Unconsoled

Here's to releasing -
releasing work,
releasing the past.

Thank you Simon for the mix and mastering,
thank you Gregor for the guitar,
thank you Koda for the creative support,
thank you Asil for the haunting photos.

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