poetry, Volume 4 number 2, March 2002, © 1993 by Doreen Fitzgerald

A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bike

A bicycle, that is, one she can
pedal with both fins,
the ones that center
her scaled form,
which he likes, of course,
in his own crude way,
with his chain-linked feelings
and geared-down tongue.
You can move water
with a turning wheel,
once you get the balance right.

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