video description, 2021-10-14
“Mother, father… gather round me, won’t you?” You prance regally in through the front door of your family hovel and stand before your parents. “I wish you both to know that a cuttlefish needs to get into my mouth so that I may live out my destiny as a cuttlefish mouth. For I have come of age. And this, you see, is my one true vocation.”
Your parents merely stare at you.
“That’s right, puh-PAH (accent on the second syllable). A cuttlefish mouth, the owner of a mouth a with a cuttlefish in it. Have you such a mouth, puh-PAH?”
Both parents only carried on staring.
“It’s too bad we’re the only hovel left. Too bad the dragon has burned the others to the ground. Too bad my peers all came of age years ago, and I, decades older than I have any right to be, have yet to come of it. Well, puh-PAH. I must tell you that on this day in order for me to fulfill the destiny of my mouth, and for my mouth to fulfill the destiny of me, that I must become a cuttlefish mouth. Someone who owns a mouth with a cuttlefish in it. I know, both muh-MAH and puh-PAH, that cuttlefish aren’t known for getting in mouths, and this is why I fear I must set out in search of just the one. Just the right cuttlefish for my mouth. The mouth that’s about to have a cuttlefish in it.”
It was then that you realized your parents were dead.