fish within fish

you pull in a large
fish, he's taken the hook
and bait and swallowed it
whole, but when you
reel him aboard you
see that he has swallowed
a smaller fish and in
that fish is another fish,
and on and on again.
you don't know where to
begin, which one to eat,
which one to throw back.
your life is built on
consequences that you
have no power over.