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Elephants and Goldfish

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Like Goldfish

in a bowl

My love

never notices

the Elephant in the room.

His trunk dips down

drinking

he’s a lush—

a lush who always listens

and fails to forget—

who reminds me

while I’m flopping

there are much worse things

than death:

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