dad surrounded by meenas. mother. sister. daughter. the goddess who never blinks in looking after her people
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In pursuit of a line
my dad said he read in a book
water water everywhere
not a drop to drink
i too turned to the book
10 years ago
The blue marlin, all of 10 feet,
pulled the old man out to sea
pulled me in too
iridescent scales flashing in the light
might sword nose slashing waves
raging in the storm
it dragged the man out to sea 3 days and nights
then leaped out 10 feet to the sky
in epic battle
between man and fish
the marling lost for itself 0
but won for fish kind
for how I could ever eat again
a beast that so longed to live
I turned to the last page
never to find the line
(turns out it belonged to another old man
in another sea,
who went after an albatross
and was never after free)
I turned the book over
then turned vegetarian
i
i followed him on the skive? boat
pulled out t
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