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whos to say fish cant be accountants



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Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:13 am
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looseleaf says...



I love your last poem! The symbolism you use is just awesome, such as comparing people to trees and salmon. =) Keep up the amazing work!
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fatherfig says...



09.


poseidon rises

violet and shining so suddenly pouring
in thick pools shuddering volitiley then
violently reflecting bright lights
into lightning the skies are blinding afterwards too quickly
darkening captured in the mirroring scales of a fish as the stormbringer raises trident


Spoiler! :
its an acrostic
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:19 pm
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fatherfig says...



10.



i have fishues

sadly sweeter then i expected when i
heard them originally can fish truly
even have gender crisis
/existential fluctuations
that spring from being called
her its such a hateful word i want who
ever spat it originally to eat it again x and
y chromosomes dont have such hateful tones behind them


Spoiler! :
also an acrostic
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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fatherfig says...



11.

foolfish

landing myself in trouble
outside the anemone's doors,
i guess i really was a clownfish waiting for you,
telling you all of my secrets, giving you poems
even though i knew you wouldn't understand, you didn't
really even know me, sometimes i wonder
if you made up that bit about your grandmother who just
new she was a lyracist, i want to think you didn't so i can at least
gain a kindred spirit in the unknown eyes of a grandmother who isn't mine.
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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fatherfig says...



12.


only children


telling secrets to no one my eyes
harbor the real knowledge
of the color yellow. this simple color
unknown to humans; they make up things like
gold to describe it. the starlight they draw just
happens to be in shades of yellow; shades
they tell theirselves they can
see.

Spoiler! :
acrostic. did you know fish can see yellow? like the real yellow? and our eyes just make up the colors that are between the red, blue, and green?
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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fatherfig says...



13.

messy images


i dont know who orchestrated this mess.
people in the sea scaring the fish, bless.
that 'there are other fish in the sea' stress.
people are people and fish are fish simple
elementrary, dont compare the two unless
you take all the elements into thought. the image
you're producing is poison. there are other girls
out there, being caught in nets and brought onto
boats. other boys out there put in ships they dont
want to be on, gutted, studied, put in aquariums.
dont make metaphors without thinking them through.
leave the other girls and other boys out there
on the land where its dangerous enough for them to be,
and please leave us fish out here in the sea...
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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fatherfig says...



14.



Praises for the more worthy~

mockingbirds and doves dont sing tunes to bass
even if in awe of their shine pidgeons and bluejays
dont twitter of how divine the salmon are during flight
but we fish marvel at the sight of winged creatures
and at the angelic songs above we cant understand them
but its easy to tell they dont sing about us

"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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fatherfig says...



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lets talk about the weathering~

light hits the shining surface breaking with a roaring sound
shining glass fragments downpouring
cutting stone at sharp and random increments
the water doesnt make these decisive marks based on
mathematical formulas the formulas make theirs based on the water
as the glass clawed aqua etches into the stone enbankment
algae hordes on the pebbles greedily and i follow with school in tow
its lunch time here in the mixed sunlight of the eroding enbankment
we eat together here and in a way we show nearness to eachother
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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fatherfig says...



16.


thoughts swim away~

do fish wake up hyper with their minds still in the bed
and as the day gets harder do their brains grow fins and swim away
is there a fish out there looking for his brain
has he looked in the garbage
brains arent disposable but we sure throw them away like they are
maybe the fish will be smart and stop spending his common sense
on instances that dont deserve it
only use it to steer him to the way of his brain
or maybe he was intelligent in the care of it in the first place
and he didnt lose it

"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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17.


napping by the lake~

rocks bloop,
skipping stones across the ocean,
skipping stones in the belly of a fish.
round and smooth pebbles bouncing infinity,
causing ripples,
smacking the water,
little sounds from the deep,
bloop.
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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18.


fishfall~

starry fish
shining like
fish do because scales
galaxy fish shining like stars do
because they can
infinity fish doing whatever they do
outlasting sand on the ocean
what do wordfish even mean
what do fish words mean
what do human words
mean to fish
why do we need
to make complete sentences
when broken peices
make more sense
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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19.


can't touch fish-

vicious fishous
swimming b-bite
always hungry looking left and right
for a meal for a snack
for something in between
bite your nose
your backpack
maybe even keyring
vicious fishous
b-bite
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20.

fisah the accountant feesh's story 01. -

swimming to the dock
underwater cafe's are
holy logarithms
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21.

fisah feesh story 02. -

smell that days living
coffee two dollars muffin
a dollar fifteen
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  





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22.



~rough day at work

fin pokes remote tiredly
gaudy colors flash
wrong channel
before fin can flip
television screams into the void

"hi fish,
lets shake our bodies,
come on,
sway to the tune!
workout is a boon,
we are healthy soon!

head pectoral fin, joint and caudal fin,
joint and caudal fin,
head pectoral fin, joint and caudal fin,
joint and caudal fin,
and eyes, and otoliths, and mouth, and gills,
head pectoral fin, joint and caudal fin,
joint and caudal fin,

swim, swim, swim,
lets all swim,
swim, swim, swim,
get your body charged !!!!!"

frantically fin flips the channel
not PBS never PBS only the news
fins droop and mouth drools
my dream screams into the void

"sleep, sleep, sleep,
lets all sleep,
sleep, sleep, sleep,
get your body charged!!!!"
"i dont slay i slaughter, luke i am your father..." ~fatherfig
  








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