Freeze-Dried Shark Eggs

Can feed leaf eels a while,
But not for long. They die,
The eels. What should we eat?

What will hide us from death
If we eat its life, we ask
A lot. We ask too much.

Lives eat lives. Some lives eat
Dead lives. Some lives kill lives
To eat. Some eat live lives.

They all die. What gets done
From meal to meal, that’s life,
The part that means more lives.

Those shark eggs, they all failed.
Some from their glob swim on.
Those leaf eels. How can we

Eat farmed eels if they won’t
Live long, get fat, make more?
We’ll die fed on ghost eels.