• O goldfish
    Why do stare at me
    With those pale, unblinking eyes?
    Why do you float there without a twitch
    Of your fan-like fins
    Or a wave of your flowing tail?

    O goldfish
    Why do you float there
    And not twitch
    At the sudden movement
    At the corner of your eye?
    It could be-oh no! -a shark
    But you do not twitch

    O goldfish
    Why are you so uninterested in
    The food that floats there
    In the corner of your tank
    It is unguarded
    And must taste so good
    But you do not twitch

    O goldfish
    Why are you floating
    Upside down?
    Why so strange a thing?
    O goldfish
    O goldfish
    Now I see
    O goldfish
    O goldfish
    ……..flush