To get to the bottom
And fully
Appreciate it,
You have to
Wade through its shallows
Holding your nose
And sucking in
As many
Fishy metaphors
As you can
Swallow.
Moderator’s comment: Call me Ishmael, mate, but if you can’t see that this is a bull’s eye gaff from that grand old man of piercing wit and sure-fire aplomb aimed at those blubbering pompous purveyors of purloined poetry, you don’t know a “gaff” from a “gaffe” and it’s time to put a patch over your “good” eye, too.
*for more edification on your way to becoming this murky body of poetry’s complete (sic) angler, go to
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-conceptual-poetry
