Why so desolate?

  in phantasmagoria about fishes,

    what disgusts you? Could

      not all personal upheaval in

        the name of freedom, be tabooed?



Is it Nineveh

  and are you Jonah

    in the sweltering east wind of your wishes?

      I myself, have stood

        there by the acquarium, looking

          at the Statue of Liberty.


By Marianne Moore

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