Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Wake up on this fish barrel morning
the fuzzy smell of wet socks and soda cans
sour the sunshine. Singing off key,
the robins’ lilting song is like seven dwarfs
whistling while they work, and I
treading water in duck bottom boots,
can barely reach the edge,
can barely cling tight
to what’s left of my head,
holding the shotgun just high enough
to aim …
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Like the idea of “sour sunshine” and what could sour it.
fish barrel morning is a wonderful and attention getting opening!
I love the off-kilter feeling this poem evokes!