This vid stolen from BBC 3 has really got under my skin.

One Night Stand wmv

Okay, it's oft been explored in movies how fish must perceive 'the world above' with it's nasty dry waterless environment and strange creatures.

Wonder what worms think about 'the world above' though? I mean if you spend your life in complete darkness entirely cocooned in a soft yeilding substance (a bit like being buried alive), what must it be like poking your head above the surface to a horrible bare environment where you don't have that comforting pressure and warmth (or perhaps cool) and moisture.

No-one ever makes Disney films about worms do they? I wonder why...?

Imagine that when you passed on, you lost your sense of body and became a nebulous cloud that get gently swept over the sky so you could look down on everything. Yes I know clouds are raindrops but it would make a good poem where a missed relative is always hanging in the sky looking down, even in blue skies - maybe it could be a kid who has decided a cloud is his grandad. I like that. If i can write it, I must dedicate it to Grandad.