some potters call their clay mud/and themselves mudslingers/the way servers are hashslingers/and firearm duellists are gunslingers/and let’s digress jauntily a bit more and have some fun and call the rumored slayer of goliath a slingslinger

but back to clay also known as mud

there is low-fire clay also known as earthenware/suitable for fire pits but not conventional kilns/unless a freeze-dried puddle instead of a vessel is desired

there is high-fire clay also known as stoneware/that can take a max temp of 2361° F or so,/also known as cone 10

and there is a lot of mud in between

some like porcelain is slick and buttery

some like soldate 60 has some grit

the color range is from chalk white to charcoal black/with red tan and brown also common/and reds and blacks often make for a messy cleanup

according to seven clues to the origins of life without clay we would not exist

and so i say

i am one with clay

was am and will be/nigh unto eternity