Salmon Ladder Shuffle
Faster, faster, iconoclast!
Faster, faster,
iconoclast!
Sportscaster calling shots
drops the shady pastor
from the pedestal —
a bull's-eye from his plasma blaster.
And it'll happen all over again.
*
How many times must we
rise to the occasion
of the century?
Invasion of our sensory
sovereignty
prevents us from ignoring the cacophony
outside.
We turn up the telly,
draw our curtains closed,
but still, we cannot hide
from the nightmarish laughter
of our garish masters.
Small town and parish folks
will perish faster
than the big city boys and girls,
'cause it's a minnow-eat-minnow world.
And when the fish are frenzied,
friend, you know they can see
just a little bit straighter than a Tilt-A-Whirl.
*
The buffet is open
and anything goes.
Qu'est-ce que c'est, here's hopin'
you keep ten fingers and toes.
*
Somewhere in that whirlwind
of gluttony, cursed sin
and etiquette crimes,
there's a salmon determined —
oh, how it hurts him —
to swim upstream and defy the times.
He wriggles free from the current
of thought-deterrent
tribal psychosis,
leaps into the air!
He's done it at last,
little red iconoclast!
He breaks free of hypnosis,
into the mouth of a bear.
About the Creator
Jacob Sherman
The desire to read, and perhaps to write, should be cultivated and nurtured with care throughout every stage of life. For my part I will inject what strangeness and truth that I can into our written history. Expect no constants but honesty.
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your word play is superb and yet subtle - loving it !