If you are fishing with some skill and luck and passion
and your hook is in a water where they’re fish
and your lore’s sufficient that you don’t go splashing
or fall asleep or get stung so you pitch
your tackle in the water there are times
you will catch a bass, or root, or trout, or boot.
They can all be eaten fried or poached with limes
if you wash them down with magnums of chilled brut.