https://soundcloud.com/mark_hayes/sexy-seahorse

This piece represents the sensual world of the male seahorse, currently at the center of of storm of controversy over his gender-fluid lifestyle as the only male animal that gets pregnant.

LYRICS:

(French Siri reads the following with an incomprehensible accent since she doesn't know how to read English)

"After completing an elaborate courtship dance that may go on for hours or days, the female seahorse transfers her mature eggs into the male’s brood pouch, where they are fertilized. At the end of a gestation period usually lasting from two to four weeks, the pregnant male’s abdominal area begins to undulate rhythmically, and strong muscular contractions eject from a few dozen to as many as 1,000 fully formed baby seahorses into the surrounding water. After that, the offspring must fend for themselves. Large litters are necessary because only about 0.5 percent will survive to adulthood."

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seahorse.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sea-horses-book-tennessee-banned_n_614eaba0e4b01dff4b6dc0e5

NOTES:

1) I don't think I was making the cat unhappy, but I don't really remember, it was the early 1980s.

2) This recording contains other spoken words in the later part, but they were deliberately obscured when they were recorded decades ago and are, I believe, absolutely unintelligible now, even after the application of neural net isolation methods. I have no idea what I was saying, and I can't find out now. If there's anything you need NOT to hear, like messages from Satan, I can't absolutely guarantee that I wasn't saying it. There may even be some backwards stuff in there.

3) Thanks to Brian Eno for the idea of unknowable lyrics.

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Last edited by Mark Hayes; 11/17/21 03:23 PM.