Day 1,341 of My Captivity

Summary

• The narrative voice is a creature in captivity, describing its day 1,341 of captive life.
• The creature describes sea creatures and their capacities for deception, such as: the anglerfish's luminescent lure, the seahorse impersonating kelp and the blenny posing as a cleaner fish.
• The creature admits its own ability to change colors to blend into backgrounds, while contemplating its diminishing strength to continuously do so.
• The creature also observes the eccentricity of human beings who lie for amusement and use jokes as a form of deception.
• A joke is recounted by the creature, told from a human father to his child; the joke revolves around a latent sense of doom - a sentiment the creature identifies with intensely (the punch line being: "It won't be long now").
• The creature ends the day recognizing its own waning health and predicting its impending demise.