This is very, very silly. I just wanted to write a Sestina with extremely short lines. It came out kind of Edward Learish.
Oh I wish
I could be
Like a fish
(In the sea
Not a dish)
That’s for me!
Seems to me
That a wish
On a dish
Needs to be
Good to see
– like a fish,
Says the fish:
Look at me!
Can’t you see?
Don’t you wish
you could be
Such a dish?
He’s a dish
Is the fish.
Likes to be
(Just like me
making wish-
Es, you see)
In the sea
Not a dish.
So I wish
That the fish
Could be me,
And I’d be
Like a bee
In the sea
He’d be me,
With a dish,
I’d be fish.
That’s my wish.
Me, I’d be
Wishing, see
Dish the fish!
Tom Juniper Poetry 