Scallops and Consciousness

I say, what use a pretty shell?
All alone, on your seabed,
deaf, mute, regardless?
Powerful hinge,
valve and filter.
White flesh,
braindead.

Starfish!
Pretty things.
Leggy ladies, and
gentlemen. Five
of them. What for?
Deaf, mute, unsung
braindead invertebrate whores.