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We always enjoyed our visits
to Japanese Friendship Gardens
as we traveled from city to city,
idle tourists relaxing in our own
way during our vacation days.
Over the years, we found that
these gardens were being
established in great profusion
across the western half of the
country.
We gave up getting to all of them,
but still tried for at least one visit
in every city we went to.
My favorite spot, in an irreverent
way, was the sign "Do not feed
the coy." Coy, I finally realized,
are not cannily shy people. but
the giant goldfish that are kept
in the pool with the turtle island.
Those days are gone forever.
The mutation was totally unexpected.
It should have been expected.
If scientists are continuing to
do all this genetic manipulaton,
other people are also going to
catch on and have a go at it.
The goldfish that ate my friends
and family were not unusual except
for their size, I have read since that
this overgrowth in many individual
goldfish has occurred because
the seed grains given them have
been treated to give extraordinary
yield -- part of the green revolution.
The latest development -- the
appearance of great fish with
legs marchng across open
country munching everything
in their path -- has not been
confirmed by the People
Management Bureau, formerly
known as the News Service.
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