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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Siluroid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the prize catch<br>I live in an artificial lake<br> fed by a nappe phréatique<br>I was put there to keep <br> lesser fish: carp<br> from taking up too much space <br>I live to be caught<br> and caught again<br> and be let loose as rain<br>I protest only to attract attention<br>Twenty minutes to make things look good<br> for the fresh-water sportsman</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know now well how to play the game</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My almost fanless tail<br>A slithering mermaid mass from my puffed-up head<br> where overcoat-button eyes<br> sunk on either side <br> of my gaping gasping mouth<br> shell-fish fins for hands<br>Seven beige whiskers under my gawking chin<br> make me the butt<br> of dare-devil diving click-clucking coots<br>Even the slender-necked darting grebe ignores me<br>I stay low when the wild geese gather<br> with their young: <br> duckling swan barnacle <br>I make no sound to call my own<br>Only the crunch of carp <br> between two rows of filed-down molars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not my duty to swagger around<br> even under my metallic raincoat camouflage <br>I hide where the yarrow stalks grow thick and deep<br> or where the weeping willows dip their loaded plaits</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every Sunday I await the sporting hameçon<br>The tear makes the wear more ludique<br>Only the side of my underlip looks like a harelip</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It doesn't much matter<br> for the fun-loving trotters and rovers<br> like to marvel with pride at my side<br> in the fishing-club picture of the week</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meantime I gorge myself with carp<br>That's why I hardly ever wish to carp </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(© T. Wignesan - Paris - 2012) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Note: The Siluroid, one of the largest fresh-water fishes, sometimes two metres and a half in length and weighing anything between a hundred and a hundred and fifty kilos.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523683" data-title="Siluroid de T. Wignesan" data-description="I am the prize catch I live in an artificial lake fed by a nappe phréatique I was put there to keep lesser fish: carp from taking up too much space I live to be caught and caught again and be let loose as rain I protest only to attract att..."></div> </div> </div>
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