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The Trout

A trout let us say
a blue blonde trout
 
that slips through  
the bars like water
 
from boite to boite  
from man to man but
 
only ones she likes  
and almost never for
 
money and I love she  
says I love exagger–
 
ate and her mother  
asked the neighbors
 
qu’est-ce que j’ai  
fait au ciel pour
 
avoir une fille qui  
est de l’ordure and
 
she came back from  
the palaces of the
 
king’s cousin out in  
Siam where they ate
 
off gold plates and her  
whim was his com–
 
mand came back to the  
bars and the boys and
 
the slow swim through  
the dim light yes a
 
trout let us call her  
a small blonde trout.
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