Odes on Tender Specie(s) Vol IV: Living Currency · Track 45 · middle

Specie(s)

60-second album-final coda. The pun unpacked: tender, specie, species. We are the species that invented tender; the tender is our species' signature. Sisukiro whispered, harp drone, single bell, fading.

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Specie... the coin in the palm.
Species... the kind of palm that holds.
We are the animal that agrees on a story.
And tender.
Legal tender.
And the other kind.
The gentle kind.
The signature of our species...
is this tender.