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Codfish

The life of fishes 

I bought a cod fish
The fish-monger wrapped it in
A newspaper
I put in in the kitchen sink
Looked it in the eyes
Any recognition 
Between two being 
Nothing 
I cut its head off and gutted it
Its eyes looked like
Black diamonds in the shade 
Of the stolen
I fried the fish, ate it 
Not long ago it had been swimming
In the cold sea
Avoiding nets and hooks
Did it have friends? 
Who would lament its demise? 
I wouldn`t like to be a fish
Ending up in a frying pan, but 
We are fishes too, always get caught
In someone’s war.

Copyright © Jan Oskar Hansen

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