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Poem of the Week |31| Goldfish

By Eoin Rogers

Goldfish
The children tap the glass
despite my protestations.
You swish along your watery pew
reproaching them in silent plosives
mouthed into the water. You’re not
exotic enough for them, your
orange wearing thin over a yellow
rotund belly, continuing a
course of glass eyed contemplation
around your little tank while I’m
pulled towards the sea monkeys.

 

 

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Once a week we feature a poem whose voice manages to cut through everything else we’ve read; something that stays in the mind and haunts us. We’ll be looking for new poems from 2016 on.

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Eoin Rogers is a poet and writer based in Dublin. He graduated from IADT with a degree in English, Media, and Cultural Studies in 2012. He writes about film, literature, comics, society and runs his own web-comic Necromancy Most Foul. You can contact him by dousing yourself in the blood of a black cockerel and baying at the harvest moon.

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