SWAÞUSWIÞEBLACU
YOUR GREETING IS WHOLEALLHEARTEDLY ACCEPTED
YOU ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL WAY WITH HELLOS
SWAÞUSWIÞEBLACU
WE RETURN YOUR GREETINGS
THOUGH LESS BEAUTIFULLY
THAN YOU EXTENDED THEM
SQUIDCELPHA
A FINE ADVENTURE, WELL TOLD
NOW THIS ONE WILL TELL ENS TALE
FAR, FAR I VENTURED
OUT OF THE GALACTIC PLANE
OUT, OUT IN THE OUTERMOST REACHES OF THE HALO
STARS ARE SPARSE THERE, DISTANCES GREAT
WEARY OF CHASING COMETS
OF BASKING IN THE GLOW OF SOLAR STORMS
I SOUGHT THE COLD AND LONELY PLACES
LOOKING FOR ROGUE PLANETS
CASTAWAY WORLDS LUCKLESSLY FLUNG
FROM ORBIT AROUND THEIR OWN STARS
FRIGID AND INERT, MOST OF THEM
BUT A FEW, RECENTLY ORPHANED
OR HEATED BY RADIOACTIVE MINERALS,
RETAINED TRACES OF WARMTH
OR, RARER STILL, OF DOOMED LIFE
THESE I DID NOT DEVOUR
BUT NUDGED INTO THE EMBRACE
OF NEW STARS
NURTURING AND LIFE-GIVING
SUCH WAS MOON-CRUSHER’S HUMOR
ANSWER
THE NATURE IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN ANGLED IN THIS DIRECTION OF SWIM IS RATHER BIZARRE
I WAS DRIFTING OFF INTO THE LAZY VOID
COMPLETELY TO MY OWN BUSINESS
WHEN I HEARD A LARGE NOISE TO MY SIDE
I HEARD SOMETHING CRACK
AND THEN
BEFORE I COULD TURN MY EYE
THE ASTEROID NEXT TO ME BECAME A MILLION LITTLE ASTEROIDS
ACCOMPANIED BY A LOUD BOOMING NOISE
AND A FORCE FROM IT CAME SO STRONG
THAT IT KNOCKED EVEN MY GIGANTIC BODY INTO ANOTHER DIRECTION
AND IT WAS THEN THAT I DRIFTED HERE
FOR THIS IS THE DIRECTION THAT THE FORCE SENT ME IN
ANSWER WAS
sqibcf THAT IS TRULY A TERRIFYING THOUGHT
BUT AN INTERESTING ONE
I SHALL CONTEMPLATE ITS IMPLICATIONS
SQUIDCELPHA
PLEASE BEGIN
WE HAVE NO EARS
BUT WE ARE ALL EARS
GUYS
I JUST HAD THE STRANGEST THOUGHT
WHAT IF OUR ENTIRE COSMOS
WAS A MERE DROP IN A PROVERBIAL OCEAN?
WHAT IF OUR FATES WERE AT THE WHIMS
OF HIDEOUS MASSIVE SURFACE-DWELLING BIPEDS
ON A HIGHER PLANE OF EXISTENCE?
GREETINGS AGAIN FRIEND-FLEET
FORTUNATE IT IS TO MEET SUCH COMPANY IN SO VAST A PLANE
HOW FARE YOU
QUESTION WAS
I GREET THEE
FRIENDS
AS WE SWIM IN THIS
VAST BETWEEN
WHAT PRETTY GAS
I HAVE SEEN
LIGHT AND HEAT
I HAVE TRAVELLED FAR THIS YEAR
BUT YET I RETURNED ON THIS DAY
AND FOUND YOU
COMRADES
QUESTION
HAVE YOU SEEN SUCH COLORS
IN THIS BEYOND
QUESTION WAS
YOU ARE CORRECT
SQUIDLING
QUESTION
DOES ANY OTHER HUNGER FOR THE TELLING OF A TALE
QUESTION WAS
FOR I MAY EXPLAIN HOW MY TRAVELS HAVE TAKEN ME TO THIS PLACE
MY SQUINTILLATING FRIENDS
IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG. I HAVE TUMBLED AND TENTACLED THROUGH THE OUTER REACHES OF THE COSMOS
I HAVE SEEN THINGS OF MAJESTIC BEAUTY AND MYSTERY AND TERROR
AND YET IT IS AT ALL OF YOU THAT I LOOK WITH THE MOST WONDER
COME, TELL ME YOUR STORIES
THE BEINGS ON THE THIRD PLANET
NOW CELEBRATE DECEPTION AND THE MASKING OF TRUTH
ONLY TO UNMASK THE TRUTH SOON AFTER
THEY CALL THESE SMALL DECEPTIONS “PRANKS” AND “JOKES”
THEY MANIPULATE THE TRUTH AND BEND IT TO THEIR WILL AS IF IT WERE NOTHING
“Jokes are only temporary lies.” -DOC SCRATCH, THE ONE WITH A CUEBALL FOR A HEAD
GREETING-FEELINGS
WE MEET AGAIN IN THIS PLACE
UNUSUAL FOR OUR KIND TO ENCOUNTER IN THIS WAY TWICE IN SUCH A SHORT SPAN
THE THIRD PLANET HAS ONLY MANAGED TO CYCLE ONCE SINCE LAST WE SAW IT
LET US DINE ONCE MORE ON INTERSTELLAR DUST THIS NIGHT
WELL MET
DEAR FLEET
FOUND EACH OTHER
TO HAVE
ONCE AGAIN
IS PLEASANT
INDEED
PECULIAR
THAT THAT BLUE-GREEN DOT-THING
IS IN
THE SAME PLACE
AS LAST TIME
IS IT NOT
QUESTION WAS
GREETINGS FELLOW TRAVELERS
I HAVE WANDERED FAR SINCE THE LAST TIME OUR PATHS COINCIDED
THIS ONE THANKS
A LARGE SQUID
FOR THE THE INVITATION TO FEAST
ANSWER
I PASSED A SPOT OF CHAOS
AFTER FINISHING A VERY TASTY COMET
COSMIC DUST WAS CRASHING
INTO OTHER COSMIC DUST
SOME STAYED FUSED
THERE WERE ROCKS AS WELL
THE LARGEST OF THEM NEARLY AS BIG AS MY EYE
ALL CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER
SOME FUSING
SOME SHATTERING ONLY TO FUSE AGAIN
I PASSED BY ON MY WAY
I DO NOT EAT INFANT PLANETS
ANSWER WAS
QUESTION
WHAT OF YOURSELF
QUESTION WAS
GREETINGS TENTACL-Y FRIENDS
LONG HAS THIS ONE TRAVELED
TENTERACT
WE GRIEVE WITH YOU
AND ARE WARNED
SQUID-OF-MINE
FRAGILE, SMALL, FLEETING
THE BONY AIR-BREATHERS
NOTICE THEM AND THEY ARE GONE
SALUTATIONS FROM A GALAXY FAR AWAY
LONG HAVE I TRAVELED
TO REJOIN MY MERRY BRETHREN
MANY STRANGE AND WONDERFUL THINGS HAVE I SEEN
SCINTILLATING NEBULAE
HURTFUL DARK HOLES
I YEARN TO TRAVEL MORE
BUT AM GLAD TO HAVE RETURNED
FAR HAVE I FLOATED
AND HAVE EATEN MANY STARS
RED GIANTS ARE AN ACQUIRED TASTE
AND EATING TOO MANY MAY CAUSE HEARTBURN
GREETINGS ALL
SUCH WANDERINGS OF LATE HAVE HAD I
AND HAVE MET OFTEN WITH A BEAUTIFUL LADY
NAMED ENTERPRISE
SHE IS NO SQUID
BUT SHE IS AS FAIR AS ANY WHO CHART THESE GALAXIES
SHE IS SELFLESS
SHE CARRIES HUNDREDS OF THOSE CALLED “MAN” THROUGH THE CELESTIAL SEA
PARTICULARLY ONE WHOM THEY CALL “PICARD”
THOUGH EQUAL MAN WILL NEVER BE
THIS PICARD IS WORTHY OF OUR SCRUTINY
THE Q CAN BE EATEN
I BEAR A WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EAT THE BLACK HOLES
NOR ENSNARE THEM IN YOUR ARMS
THEY ARE HUNGRY
SILENCE FOR OUR LOST BROTHER
HAIL, NAUTILUS
FEAST FIRST, THEN TRAVEL
QUESTION
WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN SINCE LAST WE MET
WHAT TASTED, WHAT SEEN
QUESTION WAS
AHA
THE FLEET HAS AMASSED ONCE MORE
THIS ONE IS GLAD
TO TRAVEL WITH ALL OF YOU AGAIN
QUESTION
WHERE SHALL WE TRAVEL ON THIS VENTURE
QUESTION WAS
THEY DO
THIS SYSTEM CONDENSED VERY NICELY
QUESTION
WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO TELL A TALE
QUESTION WAS
ÞE COMETS HERE SEEM ESPECIALLY DELICIOUS
TEUTHONICA
THIS ONE WOULD HEAR YOUR TALES
AS WE FEED
WELCOME
WE HAVE GATHERED DELICACIES FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT
ASTEROIDS RICH IN RADIOACTIVE MINERALS
ICY ORBS FROM THE OUTER CLOUDS
SURPRISES
SALUTATION
I HAVE DRIFTED BACK TO MY OLD UNDULATING GROUNDS
THERE I CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE OF LESSER BEINGS
I COMMUNED WITH THE SIGNALS THAT ROSE FROM THEIR SMALL PLANETS
TAKE ME TO YOUR DELICIOUS PLANET
AH, LORD CEPHALON
YOUR PRESENCE IS AS THE JET OF A QUASAR
IN THE COLD GALACTIC WIND
HAIL FELLOWS
IT IS MEET THAT WE MEET
IN THE GLOW OF AN INSIGNIFICANT STAR
ON AN INSIGNIFICANT WORLD
DORMANT THINGS RISING ARE
IN GREAT PROFUSION
THIS OUR SIGNAL IS
TO CONGREGATE
I HAVE COME FAR
VERY FAR
AND YET
HAVE I BEEN HERE BEFORE
QUESTION WAS
STRANGE STRINGY BEINGS
WITH BONY BODIES
I BARELY REMEMBER THEM
OH
BUT WAIT
I SEEM TO REMEMBER AN ODD CUSTOM ON YET ANOTHER PLANET IN YET ANOTHER GALAXY
I NOW REALIZE WHY WE HAVE ONCE AGAIN JOINED THIS DAY
AH
HELLO AGAIN
WE HAVE RETURNED ONCE AGAIN
FROM THESE VAST SPANS
BUT TELL ME
QUESTION
WHAT HAS OCCURRED TO THOSE ON PLANET MUZEROID
QUESTION WAS
HAIL COMRADES
TELL US OF YOUR WANDERINGS
IN THE ONLY TRUE SEA
SWAÞUSWIÞEBLACU
YOUR GREETING IS WHOLEALLHEARTEDLY ACCEPTED
YOU ARE BLESSED WITH A WONDERFUL WAY WITH HELLOS
SWAÞUSWIÞEBLACU
WE RETURN YOUR GREETINGS
THOUGH LESS BEAUTIFULLY
THAN YOU EXTENDED THEM
SQUIDCELPHA
A FINE ADVENTURE, WELL TOLD
NOW THIS ONE WILL TELL ENS TALE
FAR, FAR I VENTURED
OUT OF THE GALACTIC PLANE
OUT, OUT IN THE OUTERMOST REACHES OF THE HALO
STARS ARE SPARSE THERE, DISTANCES GREAT
WEARY OF CHASING COMETS
OF BASKING IN THE GLOW OF SOLAR STORMS
I SOUGHT THE COLD AND LONELY PLACES
LOOKING FOR ROGUE PLANETS
CASTAWAY WORLDS LUCKLESSLY FLUNG
FROM ORBIT AROUND THEIR OWN STARS
FRIGID AND INERT, MOST OF THEM
BUT A FEW, RECENTLY ORPHANED
OR HEATED BY RADIOACTIVE MINERALS,
RETAINED TRACES OF WARMTH
OR, RARER STILL, OF DOOMED LIFE
THESE I DID NOT DEVOUR
BUT NUDGED INTO THE EMBRACE
OF NEW STARS
NURTURING AND LIFE-GIVING
SUCH WAS MOON-CRUSHER’S HUMOR
ANSWER
THE NATURE IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN ANGLED IN THIS DIRECTION OF SWIM IS RATHER BIZARRE
I WAS DRIFTING OFF INTO THE LAZY VOID
COMPLETELY TO MY OWN BUSINESS
WHEN I HEARD A LARGE NOISE TO MY SIDE
I HEARD SOMETHING CRACK
AND THEN
BEFORE I COULD TURN MY EYE
THE ASTEROID NEXT TO ME BECAME A MILLION LITTLE ASTEROIDS
ACCOMPANIED BY A LOUD BOOMING NOISE
AND A FORCE FROM IT CAME SO STRONG
THAT IT KNOCKED EVEN MY GIGANTIC BODY INTO ANOTHER DIRECTION
AND IT WAS THEN THAT I DRIFTED HERE
FOR THIS IS THE DIRECTION THAT THE FORCE SENT ME IN
ANSWER WAS
sqibcf THAT IS TRULY A TERRIFYING THOUGHT
BUT AN INTERESTING ONE
I SHALL CONTEMPLATE ITS IMPLICATIONS
SQUIDCELPHA
PLEASE BEGIN
WE HAVE NO EARS
BUT WE ARE ALL EARS
GUYS
I JUST HAD THE STRANGEST THOUGHT
WHAT IF OUR ENTIRE COSMOS
WAS A MERE DROP IN A PROVERBIAL OCEAN?
WHAT IF OUR FATES WERE AT THE WHIMS
OF HIDEOUS MASSIVE SURFACE-DWELLING BIPEDS
ON A HIGHER PLANE OF EXISTENCE?
GREETINGS AGAIN FRIEND-FLEET
FORTUNATE IT IS TO MEET SUCH COMPANY IN SO VAST A PLANE
HOW FARE YOU
QUESTION WAS
I GREET THEE
FRIENDS
AS WE SWIM IN THIS
VAST BETWEEN
WHAT PRETTY GAS
I HAVE SEEN
LIGHT AND HEAT
I HAVE TRAVELLED FAR THIS YEAR
BUT YET I RETURNED ON THIS DAY
AND FOUND YOU
COMRADES
QUESTION
HAVE YOU SEEN SUCH COLORS
IN THIS BEYOND
QUESTION WAS
YOU ARE CORRECT
SQUIDLING
QUESTION
DOES ANY OTHER HUNGER FOR THE TELLING OF A TALE
QUESTION WAS
FOR I MAY EXPLAIN HOW MY TRAVELS HAVE TAKEN ME TO THIS PLACE
MY SQUINTILLATING FRIENDS
IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG. I HAVE TUMBLED AND TENTACLED THROUGH THE OUTER REACHES OF THE COSMOS
I HAVE SEEN THINGS OF MAJESTIC BEAUTY AND MYSTERY AND TERROR
AND YET IT IS AT ALL OF YOU THAT I LOOK WITH THE MOST WONDER
COME, TELL ME YOUR STORIES
THE BEINGS ON THE THIRD PLANET
NOW CELEBRATE DECEPTION AND THE MASKING OF TRUTH
ONLY TO UNMASK THE TRUTH SOON AFTER
THEY CALL THESE SMALL DECEPTIONS “PRANKS” AND “JOKES”
THEY MANIPULATE THE TRUTH AND BEND IT TO THEIR WILL AS IF IT WERE NOTHING
“Jokes are only temporary lies.” -DOC SCRATCH, THE ONE WITH A CUEBALL FOR A HEAD
GREETING-FEELINGS
WE MEET AGAIN IN THIS PLACE
UNUSUAL FOR OUR KIND TO ENCOUNTER IN THIS WAY TWICE IN SUCH A SHORT SPAN
THE THIRD PLANET HAS ONLY MANAGED TO CYCLE ONCE SINCE LAST WE SAW IT
LET US DINE ONCE MORE ON INTERSTELLAR DUST THIS NIGHT
WELL MET
DEAR FLEET
FOUND EACH OTHER
TO HAVE
ONCE AGAIN
IS PLEASANT
INDEED
PECULIAR
THAT THAT BLUE-GREEN DOT-THING
IS IN
THE SAME PLACE
AS LAST TIME
IS IT NOT
QUESTION WAS
GREETINGS FELLOW TRAVELERS
I HAVE WANDERED FAR SINCE THE LAST TIME OUR PATHS COINCIDED
THIS ONE THANKS
A LARGE SQUID
FOR THE THE INVITATION TO FEAST
ANSWER
I PASSED A SPOT OF CHAOS
AFTER FINISHING A VERY TASTY COMET
COSMIC DUST WAS CRASHING
INTO OTHER COSMIC DUST
SOME STAYED FUSED
THERE WERE ROCKS AS WELL
THE LARGEST OF THEM NEARLY AS BIG AS MY EYE
ALL CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER
SOME FUSING
SOME SHATTERING ONLY TO FUSE AGAIN
I PASSED BY ON MY WAY
I DO NOT EAT INFANT PLANETS
ANSWER WAS
QUESTION
WHAT OF YOURSELF
QUESTION WAS
GREETINGS TENTACL-Y FRIENDS
LONG HAS THIS ONE TRAVELED
TENTERACT
WE GRIEVE WITH YOU
AND ARE WARNED
SQUID-OF-MINE
FRAGILE, SMALL, FLEETING
THE BONY AIR-BREATHERS
NOTICE THEM AND THEY ARE GONE
SALUTATIONS FROM A GALAXY FAR AWAY
LONG HAVE I TRAVELED
TO REJOIN MY MERRY BRETHREN
MANY STRANGE AND WONDERFUL THINGS HAVE I SEEN
SCINTILLATING NEBULAE
HURTFUL DARK HOLES
I YEARN TO TRAVEL MORE
BUT AM GLAD TO HAVE RETURNED
FAR HAVE I FLOATED
AND HAVE EATEN MANY STARS
RED GIANTS ARE AN ACQUIRED TASTE
AND EATING TOO MANY MAY CAUSE HEARTBURN
GREETINGS ALL
SUCH WANDERINGS OF LATE HAVE HAD I
AND HAVE MET OFTEN WITH A BEAUTIFUL LADY
NAMED ENTERPRISE
SHE IS NO SQUID
BUT SHE IS AS FAIR AS ANY WHO CHART THESE GALAXIES
SHE IS SELFLESS
SHE CARRIES HUNDREDS OF THOSE CALLED “MAN” THROUGH THE CELESTIAL SEA
PARTICULARLY ONE WHOM THEY CALL “PICARD”
THOUGH EQUAL MAN WILL NEVER BE
THIS PICARD IS WORTHY OF OUR SCRUTINY
THE Q CAN BE EATEN
I BEAR A WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EAT THE BLACK HOLES
NOR ENSNARE THEM IN YOUR ARMS
THEY ARE HUNGRY
SILENCE FOR OUR LOST BROTHER
HAIL, NAUTILUS
FEAST FIRST, THEN TRAVEL
QUESTION
WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN SINCE LAST WE MET
WHAT TASTED, WHAT SEEN
QUESTION WAS
AHA
THE FLEET HAS AMASSED ONCE MORE
THIS ONE IS GLAD
TO TRAVEL WITH ALL OF YOU AGAIN
QUESTION
WHERE SHALL WE TRAVEL ON THIS VENTURE
QUESTION WAS
THEY DO
THIS SYSTEM CONDENSED VERY NICELY
QUESTION
WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO TELL A TALE
QUESTION WAS
ÞE COMETS HERE SEEM ESPECIALLY DELICIOUS
TEUTHONICA
THIS ONE WOULD HEAR YOUR TALES
AS WE FEED
WELCOME
WE HAVE GATHERED DELICACIES FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT
ASTEROIDS RICH IN RADIOACTIVE MINERALS
ICY ORBS FROM THE OUTER CLOUDS
SURPRISES
SALUTATION
I HAVE DRIFTED BACK TO MY OLD UNDULATING GROUNDS
THERE I CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE OF LESSER BEINGS
I COMMUNED WITH THE SIGNALS THAT ROSE FROM THEIR SMALL PLANETS
TAKE ME TO YOUR DELICIOUS PLANET
AH, LORD CEPHALON
YOUR PRESENCE IS AS THE JET OF A QUASAR
IN THE COLD GALACTIC WIND
HAIL FELLOWS
IT IS MEET THAT WE MEET
IN THE GLOW OF AN INSIGNIFICANT STAR
ON AN INSIGNIFICANT WORLD
DORMANT THINGS RISING ARE
IN GREAT PROFUSION
THIS OUR SIGNAL IS
TO CONGREGATE
I HAVE COME FAR
VERY FAR
AND YET
HAVE I BEEN HERE BEFORE
QUESTION WAS
STRANGE STRINGY BEINGS
WITH BONY BODIES
I BARELY REMEMBER THEM
OH
BUT WAIT
I SEEM TO REMEMBER AN ODD CUSTOM ON YET ANOTHER PLANET IN YET ANOTHER GALAXY
I NOW REALIZE WHY WE HAVE ONCE AGAIN JOINED THIS DAY
AH
HELLO AGAIN
WE HAVE RETURNED ONCE AGAIN
FROM THESE VAST SPANS
BUT TELL ME
QUESTION
WHAT HAS OCCURRED TO THOSE ON PLANET MUZEROID
QUESTION WAS
HAIL COMRADES
TELL US OF YOUR WANDERINGS
IN THE ONLY TRUE SEA