Human Scales

If I were fish,

then I would would swim and swim all through the night.

If I were a fish,

I would make love to an octopus, and hope he wouldn't eat me, or ink me, just to see what we could create.

If I were a fish,

I would breathe like a superhero and zig and zag between the teeth of whale because I would be invincibly vulnerable and I would be cute like the goldfish my best friend won at the fair and I would be fierce like a piranha, fiercer than Tyra Banks, and I would take so many goddamn chances I would be right next to Nemo swimming up to that boat and then eventually I would swim into the open mouth of a shark because what are the chances of a fish like me surviving anyway and only the good die young.