Tuesday, January 30, 2024

maybe it's the mercury

i've lost
all interest in eating fish.
tuna,
cod,
Chilean sea bass, flounder
and trout.
i can hardly
look at an oily can
of sardines,
or anchovies
without running to the bathroom
to lurch.
i don't know
what happened.
even a sauce won't help
things,
or having potatoes cuddle
up next to
the fins and gills,
the stiff body absent of a head.
somewhere along 
the way,
dead fish fell off
my list of eating
categories.
i avert my eyes whenever
i pass a Red Lobster
and speed on.

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