Koi

Throw any
and everything

at it, the voice
in his head

says something
like this – but it

is more the
instinct of a

jerk by some
dumb animal,

not fish who
do consider and

learn [even the
bony-eared

assfish knows
this is wrong]

and a gunman
in Texas has

perhaps done
what he has

done on impulse –
no koi,

love and
affection,

in his knowing –
just a carping

on about hatred
to overfeed

it all in a
scattered falling.