a fish responds...

guardian

with verdant potential
you welcomed me
and I, humbled and
deferential
donned vest’ments of ivy
the trappings of office
worn In your service

i’ve loved you since…
i’ve chased you since…
and with no small amount
of hesitance
i have sought
your perfect pastures
bloated and ripe

cash this check
for a quarter million
largest I’ve ever written
and await the advent
of your own doom’s day
by your beloved
your faithless masses

in droves I came
to bury my heart
in your wounded earth
and now
despite and because of
you bleed thru my adding machines
and my printing machines

i stood dressed like you
i stood motionless like you
and now I’ve devoured you
i stand alone hunched
poised
over these
my unintentional killing fields


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