[New-Poetry] Categories of Fish

[Anny Ballardini]

oh yes, in Italian they also have the expression: "boiled fish" or "eyes of 
boiled fish" to define someone who is sort of dumb, at least not very 
active.

From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:40 AM


>I love this one.
>
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Categories of Fish
>>
>> First, there are the kind that we like to eat,
>> the ones with fins and silvery scales.
>>
>> Then, there are those who walk upright
>> in the evenings. Almost.
>>
>> Then come those who walk backwards
>> until someone tells them not to.
>>
>> There are fish that feed millions from a single
>> basket, a meal that suffices for weeks, even months.
>>
>> Then, there are those that hang out in schools,
>> never wandering off on their own,
>>
>> never graduating, taking a degree,
>> or even declaring a major.
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> halvard at earthlink.net <mailto:halvard at earthlink.net>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html 
>> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/index.html>
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com <http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/>
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com 
>> <http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com/>
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html 
>> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/vidalocabooks.html>
>>
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>
> The moral is this: in American verse,
> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>  --Corey Ford
>