Of or concerning fish | Christina Brannon
Of or concerning fish | Christina Brannon When the vet removed the rainbow rock from the goldfish’s trachea I knew I had to redecorate. If you think buying a gun is easy Try a gallon of paint and bristle brush - Really you don’t even need ID. It’s like they don’t know I’m going to gut renovate the order of things. I stand on the shoulders of giants, as I rewrite history, the stuff of victors, to say truth is yesterday, Because I am a winner and not a loser - And things I don’t accept Happened to someone with a white bedroom door and Mine is now not. The natural world needs its dues, But there’s enough ice in my freezer to rehab the glaciers, Enough guile in my wrist to rip The seal from the shark, Put it in my sick new room. All of my ego’s understudies Exist only in my mind’s panopticon, Undergoing cruel and unusual punishment for not seeing anything coming. I am a victor and they are victims of circumstance. When the rat-tailed tour guide tells me there are no exits in Versailles bef...
