[Realpoetik] Scott Abels

[RealPoetik Magazine]

ARS POETICA: SETTING UP AN AQUARIUM





You go from a disclosure

to an announcement in 4 gallons.



Friends, your cigarettes

look like tiny fish food morsels



and are killing our fish.

You of course want proof.



There *is* a goldfish society

sunlight will find.  A bright



red flag.  Science in the daylight

will not reach a definite conclusion.



You are horrible

thunder over the water.



When you’re setting up

an aquarium, your teeth snap.



__________________



A half an inch of good,

flat skipping rocks.



Your speech patterns

will become simpler over time.



If the fish lack heads,

1 can diced chilies.



A color scheme

based on nature.



Across the street

there is an aquarium



under construction.

I am writing postcards



with text and 2 old men

fishing with dynamite.



*Scott Abels* currently lives and teaches in Honolulu, where he edits the
online poetry journal *Country Music* <http://countrymusicpoetry.org>*.*
He is the author of *Rambo Goes to Idaho* (BlazeVOX, 2011) and *Nebraska
Fantastic *(Beard of Bees, 2012).

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