Guppies

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Guppies




I bought a one-gallon tank
for a pair of guppies alive.
The tank was on the window shank
And the two guppies turned into five.

The plants didn’t do well.
So I bought a six-gallon tank
With lighting and heating, in which to dwell.
I put it in a downstairs room, to be frank.

Suddenly, the guppies increased!
I think thirty or more were seen.
The plants I added were a messy feast.
so catfish, to keep the bottom clean


Now what?
When I was young,
I solved the problem but
From age a problem sprung.

Flushing some dull fish
down the toilet seemed easy then.
Now, my over-ripe ethics began to swish
saying this is “wrong” to do again.

Is this how a god feels?

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WordSlinger commented on Guppies

07-10-2009

wow, I love guppies, I love poets. this poem, is way to cool. A sweet complete. I like the green ones that look back at ya...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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