I had a little turtle when I was a child. Its name was “Speedy”
since it had a orange racing stripe down its back, not because it was
particularly fast. Speedy lived in a bowl
with a fake plastic tree. A strange fungus took Speedy from this mortal coil within
a month of coming home from the pet store. This song is in memoriam of all the short
lived pet store animals and their sad owners.
