In popular culture and mythology, the octopus is often vilified—the "devil fish," the monster of the deep, the kraken. It is viewed as "other." Nash, however, humanizes it. The speaker addresses the octopus directly ("Tell me, O Octopus"), treating it with a strange sort of reverence. The suggestion to call itself "Us" implies that the octopus is not a monster, but a collective. It is a walking (or swimming) committee. This recontextualizes the octopus from a beast of prey into a fascinating anomaly of nature. It is no longer scary; it is just biologically complicated.
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