The embryos looked like Caviar on the leaf of the plant 
 they were planted upon
  
 Attentive when one fell, it would get sucked up and placed back in the pile
  
 Three days ago a swarm of tadpole sperm was swimming, 
 they didn't look like Angelfish yet
  
 What good parents they are, 
 corralling them keeping them in sight at all times
  
 When one misbehaves, defying that invisible child's Gate, i would 
 get sucked up and spit back out 
 within the confines of the other parent's watchful eyes
  
 Two days ago the swarm looked thinner
  
 Yesterday morning, while making coffee, i noticed but only a dozen or two
  
 By late afternoon, a handful could been seen swimming 
 their spermlike dances
  
 8 o'clock last night, i could only see two, three or four still swimming, still swarming around that leaf on the plant
  
  
 Today i awoke and saw that Comet & Ajax weren't talking to one another, 
  
 avoiding contact 
 - one on the right side of the tank - the other all the way left -
  
 Who's left? 
 i looked, but could not find a heartbeat
  
 Where'd they go? 
 wondering if that filter sucked them wondering if Mom or Dad ate them.... hmmmmm
  
  
  
 It's so quiet in there ~ Ajax looks stunned, Comet looks sad
  
 Like deer in the headlights.... 
  
 They mourning their loss
  
  
 But like clockwork, Round Four will begin in two weeks or so, Comet and Ajax, will lay eggs and fertilized them on the leaf of that plant ,,,,
  
 Oh, i hope that when the sunlight hits the tank just right this afternoon, one tadpole sperm will emerge... just as strong in conviction as Mom & Dad and maybe, just maybe
  
  
 I'll get to watch his Wings emerge..
  
  
 *
  
 march 4th
  
  
  so i have these fish
 all attention's gone to the angels
 still no signs of wee-life-forms'  tadpole sperm dancing
   have i looked this up on the net yet?...(no)... i'd rather form my opinions
 having convinced myself now, 
 that they are indeed beneath the gravel,
  
 i imagine tadpole-sperm caves
  
  
 to incubate.
  
  
 *
  
 march 8th
  
  
   
 seems the only incubating going on
 was within Comet
 she laid eggs today, not even two weeks after laying her third coddle
 i 
 am tired
  
  
 watching she and Ajax 
 every time
 i did not see them do their spawning dance
 still don't know the music they heard either
 i did not see the fertilization
 i could do without peeping-tom peering
  
  i 
 am tired
 however, this is family 
 and i will grow into my role as cheerleader
 but not tonight
  
 *
  
 may 22nd
  
  
 i'm sorry
 i forgot to mention
 that
 Comet Killed Rainbow A Few Days Ago
   made him LEAP high enough & fassst enough
   to land, an easy five feet away, on the living room
   carpet without one drop of water, to follow the path
 to his death
  
 Comet is psychotic
 eyes twitching side-to-side-to-sideways
  
 today
 i questioned her
   to her face, with no threatening
   quick movements to scare her, to put her in the
   throws (sp?) of attack
 she listened
 and i asked, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING?
  
  
 i looked for answers in the water
  with vague results, phantom dreams
 then went into the kitchen to see the tank from
   another view
  
 sunlit background
 illuminated the water and i saw them!
   
 short, white strands at first
 then black dots at one end
 to seeing a tadpole sperm angel swimming so freely
  
  
 let's not forget...
 Comet is Psychotic...
  
 she'll manage to kill her children,
   Evil Cannibal Comet
  
 but Selfish Comet  will not commit suicide
  
 leaving Ajax the satisfactory treat
  
 of EATING HER!
  
                     ~Ye of Little Faith~