Ever heard of ghoti?
Take a peek,
they are everywhere.

Swimming against currents of hardship
Of problems to solve and work to get done
To catapult through the puddles of rain
and early morning jogs with the sun stretching
To fill out charts and complicated equations
To finish stacks of papers to be written
To help pickup a stack of fallen belongings
The wisdom to say no,
The strength to say yes,

It's impossible to miss
these kind of people...
                                tough people

Riding the escalator
Waiting in line for a latte
Sitting on leather seats
smooth as sheets of polished obsidian
Or walking down the street
steps loud as the echoing dissonance
which resonates in the vast expanse
of concrete walls
Or the soft breaths
which kiss the curve of a flower petal

They are everywhere...
                women  
(and they are not hiding, either)

Well, have you been listening?
Have you been pay attention
The signs are everywhere
Species have been disappearing
off of the face of the earth
Or endangered
Or suffocating underneath the layer of
intoxicating oil
Or crippled and screaming and trashing
as another plastic wasteland
strips the water of purity

...Or you might have seen them
on a silver platter
or in a sandwich pertaining only to 45%
Or in glass tank
waiting to be flushed
when its fluttering heart stops beating
                   Don't understand? A little enunciation maybe?

They are everywhere
ghoti
fish
ghoti
fish
          tough people
                      women
come on.... practice a little
*enuncation