Thursday, April 21, 2011

NaPoWriMo Sonnet #21

Dear Congress,

I caught the ugliest fish the cap'n had ever seen
hook out its eye but bore that indignity w/
a rather stolid (fishy) assessment of the sitch
when we docked the cap'n met another cap'n for
prostate dysfunction support group (i.e., shots of Jack)
they threw the fish in a laundry basket "Over
near the propane!" & that was the end of the fish //
In the morning I poked it w/ a tire gauge &
ugly bit the gauge teeth on metal grinding upward
like FDR (only a fish) smoking a cigarette
the cap'n chased me w/ a baseball bat toward the sea
where I threw the fish still clenching the tire gauge
maybe it gauged the pressures of its kind (true story) &
thereby resembled the Futility of Our Age //

Yrs, Constituent

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