When I found the dildo

Lodged in the cod’s stomach,

I thought of my wife.

I thought of the first night

After a long fishing season

When I said I was too tired

But really I had noticed

The skin of her arms and neck

Beginning to sag.

On her fortieth birthday

She cried and we both lied.

I told her I didn’t know why

And she said she didn’t either.

Within a year she had a lover.

He was probably young.

I found a pair of pearl earrings

He bought her.

It was over quickly.

But we both knew everything,

And we went to sleep each night without a word.

When the local news crew came

To see the unwitting cod

I told them I thought

A frustrated wife

Had thrown the sex toy overboard

And the cod

 

Had thought it was an octopus.

The Fisherman
By: Gray Davis