FISH JUICE
She drank all the water out of the glass the fish slept in
but it was noise pollution that finally drowned him
while the girl was getting high on riddles and thunder
the deaf fish grew wings and flew away.
Now he’s an angelfish that won’t ever die
strangled in beads and suffocating under
the canned colors she painted the bathroom sky
while she was high on riddles and thunder.
The fishy was abused–
he had
cigarette butts in his ears
but he never drowned in the incessant rain
because he was born in the little girl’s tears
[and drawn in chalk on the bathroom wall].
The fish became a man from the railroad station
recycling ideas for breakfast wine
until she had an aquatic hallucination
seeing
“We must be related because we both have a spine.”