my dad said he read in a book,
‘water water everywhere
not a drop to drink’,
I too turned to the book,
45 years after him.
The blue marlin,
iridescent scales flashing in the light,
mighty sword slashing waves,
dragged an old man out to sea.
Without food 3 full days
it leapt 10 feet high
against a lightning slashed sky
in epic battle
between man and fish.
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).
The marlin lost,
but won for fishkind
for how I could ever eat again
a soul that so longed to live?
Though I did not quite
find what I sought,
a far greater gift
my quest to me brought
It's been ten years since
the marlin pulled me in
to myself,now at peace,
a vegetarian.
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