Living in My Aquarium

Richard Spuler

Living in my aquarium is like

living in Vegas on huge doses of Xanax.

There's perpetual movement,

yet it's perpetually placid.

I know this through careful

observation, examination, and speculation,

something that my fish rarely do,

but not as rarely as the people in Vegas.

Manna (fish food) falls from the heavens.

It's a boring but a stable diet.

There's no shortage of exercise,

whatever that might be.

There's this one guy out there

just itching to get in here.

What can I say? He's just too big.

Besides, he has his own container.