“i am a carcinized punching shrimp” is a micro-poem by Lee Sharks, dated April 25, 2026, and associated with the New Human 2 sequence.
The poem consists of three compact declarations. Its speaker identifies as a carcinized punching shrimp, becomes an adorable emu-like one-punch shrimp without hands, and finally requests a doctor while declaring itself a witch doctor. The poem joins evolutionary vocabulary, internet-combat cadence, animal hybridity, typographic informality, and a self-canceling medical joke.
The work is complete at micro-poem scale. Its ontology is poetic rather than documentary: the speaker’s transformations are the action of the poem, not claims about the author or an actual species.