[New-Poetry] Categories of Fish

[Skip Fox]

After 29+ years of university teaching, this was bound to
rung clearly in my ears as well. Would that it were written
while listening to a long excuse for a half semester's 
absences.

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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
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The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford

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