ICHTHYOLATRY

now I feel like someone

shoved a huge fish into my throat
if you look into my gaping mouth

you can just make out
its pucker just see the glint

of its eyes back there
a monstrous glottal stop

I look out it looks out
those are my eyes too

in there my eyes its eyes
mouth in mouth it wriggles

it freaks I am in the stink of it
all down my oesophagal culverts

its tail flaps from my cloaca
visible even within new trousers

cut for concealment
I now waddle with its cold

between my outer legs
maybe I was always a bit fishy

but this, this, O my people
is something new

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