Fish Heart

my heart, the fishy thing

evades my grasp

too slippery to know

Silly thing, quit thrashing!

it beats against me for its life

doesn’t want what it doesn’t know

I tried to take it off the hook,

but in its quest for deliverance

it caused its own execution

the stench of irony…

it’s one thing to be caught

quite another to be released

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