DEAD FISH by Dennis Doph

because why? 41

My Aunt Doris used to like to say
A Woman's Tribulation is a Gentleman's Curse
Aunt Doris should have known her Yea from Nay
Where Doris was coming from could not have been much worse
She was an active lesbian from the age of six
Played with the Big Boys in the woodshed, don't you know
Doris got knocked up before she was twelve.
Only dead fish go with the flow

Clare St Clare was a fur bearing animal from West Mass
Walked around with a big piece of Misery between his legs
It could not be said that Clare had even a tiny touch of class
Refusing the Finer Wines of Man; preferring dregs
Clare always referred to sexual congress as Combat
Savagery in the sack was not a course for doubt
Clare would pin his quarry to the wall without a pause for chat
....and the fish flowed in. And the fish flowed out

Little Steve Willingham the Irish dwarf
Wore XXX-size jockeyshorts at the age of nine
Truck drivers lined up for Steve at Everett Wharf
Because what was in those jockeyshorts was divine
Steve took his little cousin Dennis to the Public Library
To check out some Ngaio Marsh and Agatha Christie
They also checked out men in the john; the smooth; the hairy
What Dennis saw there made his peepers misty

There on the Biff sat his handsome Dad
Steve was preparing Dennis for a nasty shock
Dennis' Dad was not there to take a dump
Dennis' Dad was there to suck some cock
Life's curtains raised and they lowered again
As Steve prepared Dennis for a life of Smut
Dennis' Dad took Steve like all those other men
...and the Dead Fish of Life swam right up Dennis' butt

so we have tottered on through quite the Creative Life
Taking what was offered with a pinch of salt
Always resisting any potential wife
Ministering to the lame, the weak, the halt
the injured, the cretinous, the unsure
The potent and impotent; don't you know
We might be considered Purist but we never could be considered Pure
Only dead fish go with the flow.