Another Boring English Lesson

A funny thing,

The English Language

Like how fish as a noun means

One of 32,000 species

While fish as a verb means

To attempt to kill them

Life and death literally hanging

Between the parts of speech

Fish. Noun.

An Underwater breather

Fish. Verb.

To take their breathe

Interjection.

Damn!

Fish. Noun.

An animal with scale-covered flesh

Fish. Verb.

To pierce their flesh

Simile

The contrast cutting like a filet knife

Fish. Noun.

A living being

Fish. Verb

To end their life

Prepositional phrase

Without a second thought

Fish. Noun.

An animal who feels pain

Fish. Verb.

To ignore their pain

With pronoun replacing

The antecedent:

We’ve hooked our compassion

And drowned it in tartar sauce

Fish. Noun.

A vertebrate unable to scream

Fish. Verb.

To sit in the breeze

and pretend killing

is peaceful

Written 2021