I have never seen a body turn from life to corpse hung from a chapel or tree or a two year old girl stop breathing because mom can't afford food or clothes torn off a man on fire in heat as he stops drops dead with final thoughts of spring rolls of laughter of the buffet filled to the belly like bullets in the chest when you can eat no more fish she said to write a poem as a fish hooked and dragged like ******* soda cans on the back of a limousine on your wedding day off he goes out to the lake to fish to socialize with Ted his brother as strong as his fillet knife I bite the jig and wear the hook to the surface I gasp thrash and hang from eight pound test and turn from fish to fish flesh as a fillet knife empties my guts from gill to tail.