Saturday, April 19, 2025

filet o fish

like an old
big
fish, you too have
hook
marks and scars
on your lips
from being
wrangled to shore
by some damsel
in distress.
she reeled you in,
put you
in a bucket,
saying sweet things
all the way,
then took
you home to be deboned
into a malleable
filet.

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