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Poetry of Issue 9: OH MY FISH

OH MY FISH

Are they from the river, the sea or the fish farm?

I do not know; but, poor things!

With its cute little snout

Freezing to death

At the Mercadona fish shop

At Carrefour or at your uncle’s store.

Those who are from the sea

They have come loaded on Hippos

From the Nile, from Aswan or from Alexandria

They who swim

Every day of its life.

Those who fish in the river

Like barbels, trout or crabs

They have colored pints

And they are very fine food

As the riddle says.

The fisherman in a barge or rod

That looks at the sun from the front

Without being blinded

He imitates all of them

He doesn’t invent anything.

“The things that I do

They are all bluster”

As he himself says.

Now you don’t have to go to sea

Nor go down to the river

Well the fish come to us

In cans or boxes filled with cold.

I come to the pond

Where with big eyes

Emerald green

The frog sings

What if it sees me

Jump, hide and shut up.

Then i go to the bar

Of the road

That it is posada too

And I ask for a beer cane

With breaded and fried legs

Of frog.

by Daniel de Culla

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