Salmon

We didn't die today

to be forgotten like words

on yesterdays paper

it's all irrelevant

when you live inside a picture

in another mans home

smiling, waving, place-holding

until he switches out the photo

for something more personal 

like when he caught that fish

but it wriggled off the hook

to be plummeted again

into the vastly endless blue

 and he kept swimming for days

looking for a doctor

but all of his fish friends

dropped out of med school

so his only logical recourse

was to find another hook.