word of the day: discombobulate

you have fins and yet you crawl like a lizard on all fours,

come from lakes but breathe on land like a frog or salamand'.

you're a living fossil stone from the dawn of jaw and bone. 

like the tortoises and men, you can age to ten-times-ten. 

you're peculiar but, yes, i still count you as my pal, 

though we have our differences. everyone does, anyhow. 

          ...but you discombobulate — there's one truth i'll always mind.

          i still can't appreciate how you like to eat your kind!

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