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The Young Scientists
by Dude Wallers

One day there was a small spill of some slightly radioactive isotope in the nuke lab at the university. The stuff wasn't very active and nobody got too concerned. The Geiger counter even said it was okay to wash it down the drain.
      A few drops of the isotope splattered into the brine shrimp culture that the young scientists kept so the baby fish on which they practiced their trade would be well fed and their ethics code satisfied. The Geiger counter told the young scientists that their brine shrimp were clean, and their microscope-blurred eyes were not sharp enough to pick up their faint glow. The scientists closed up shop for the day, changed their clothes and went and drank lots of beer.
      Overnight, the tiny baby brine shrimp quadrupled in size so in the morning they were real small instead of real real small. And the young hung-over scientists didn't notice this since they never paid much attention to the brine shrimp anyway; their ethics code applied only to animals with spines. The baby fish gobbled up the nuclear powered baby brine shrimp and the young scientists put the baby fish in their fancy Plexiglas apparatus, which was what they really loved.
      The young scientists gave the baby fish some radioactive water to swim in and decided it was lunchtime. They went outside and drank coffee and smoked cigarettes for an hour and talked about how much fun they had drinking beer last night.
      After lunch, the young scientists went back into the lab and read novels and looked at their baby fish from time to time and checked on their apparatus a lot. They didn't see any leaks. They didn't even see the little tummies of their baby fish twitching away. The young scientists took some water samples from this really cool three-way valve that was installed in their expensive Plexiglas apparatus. They tested the water to see how radioactive it was. The water samples weren't very active and the young scientists went back outside for a few more cigarettes.
      When they came back into the lab, the young scientists checked their apparatus and noticed a dead baby fish. One of the scientists snapped at another for putting brine shrimp into the apparatus, which was forbidden. And the other said she didn't do that, she thought. They didn't notice that the baby brine shrimp in the apparatus were kind of greenish. And they took out the dead baby fish and cut him up and ground him up and got him ready to be tested. The dead baby fish wasn't very radioactive either and the young scientists gathered up their novels and compact discs and cigarettes and lighters and got ready to go home.
      One of the young scientists checked the apparatus once more before they left and a little baby fish splashed some tiny drops of water on his long, left of center hair. It was just a tiny drop or two and the Geiger counter told the scientist that he was clean. A kind of greenish little brine shrimp crawled in his ear. The young scientists went and drank lots of beer.
      After they drank lots of beer, the young scientists became horny. They soon paired off so they could kiss and screw and such. Somehow, a certain young female scientist ended up swallowing a kind of greenish little baby brine shrimp. Neither she nor her lusty young scientist partner noticed that their tummies were twitching when they arrived at the lab the next morning.
      The rest of the little baby fish in the apparatus were dead and the young scientists were happy because now they could cut them up and grind them up and get lots of data. One of the scientists had to clean the apparatus while the others cut up and ground up and got the baby fish ready to test. She didn't see all those little baby, nuclear powered brine shrimp clinging to the sides of the apparatus, just above the water line. She may have been a little bit hung-over. A bunch of those little kind of greenish baby brine shrimp jumped on this tender young scientist and found one orifice or another to crawl into.
      The water didn't test very active. And neither did the cut up, ground up baby fish. The young scientists smoked cigarettes and scratched their heads. They didn't notice their empty tummies twitching away as they drank their coffee.
      After lunch the young scientists agreed that it was really too late in the day to start another baby fish experiment, so they fed some baby brine shrimp to their baby fish and read their novels and smoked some cigarettes and decided to quit early since today was Friday. So they went and drank lots of beer and kissed and screwed and traded their little greenish nuclear powered baby brine shrimp without even knowing it.
      The next day was Saturday so the young scientists drank lots of beer and kissed and screwed and traded little greenish nuclear powered baby brine shrimp without even knowing it.
      And they never noticed their young beer filled tummies twitching away.
      The next day was Sunday and the young scientists slept in late and drank lots of beer and kissed and screwed and traded little greenish nuclear powered baby brine shrimp without even knowing it. And they ate some food and smoked some cigarettes.
      And they never noticed their young beer filled tummies twitching away.
      The next day was Monday and the young scientists went to the lab and scratched their heads and looked at their baby fish, they were dead, and played with their expensive, Plexiglas apparatus.
      At lunch the young scientists went outside with their cigarettes and their coffee and one of them said that he felt like a sea monkey. The others nodded and said that they felt like sea monkeys too. And one of them admitted that he had eaten nothing but seaweed for dinner, and beer of course. They smoked their cigarettes and scratched their heads and went back into the lab and ignored their twitching young tummies.
      That night the young scientists decided not to go to the bar. So they went and bought lots of beer and a few big bags of rock salt and some of that health food powdered algae and they went to the hot tub at one of their apartments.
      They poured salt and algae in the tub and beer and beer in their mouths. And they all got naked and looked at each other's genitals as they climbed in the tub. The young scientists sat in their salty green tub and thought about kissing and screwing and watched their cozy little salty green tub fill up with kind of greenish little baby brine shrimp.

 

 

 

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