Fish?  Fish!?!   I hate fish!  That's all I can ever find on this
board is fish, fish, and more fish.  Yecccch!
	        I'm not the only person who feels this way, either.  Please peruse
the following excerpts from _Landlubbers:  The Fish-haters Guide to Classic
Poetry and Literature_  (1992,  Marlin Press) to see how other great minds
feel about (yecch!) fish.

Emily Dickinson

He felt the hook come ever nearer-
death  seeped into his scaly brain-
The meaning became ever clearer-
his final worm would bring him pain-

Oh, would that I could bring such pain-
to finny horrors from the deep-
Oh, would that I could send all fish-
to their final, watery sleep.



J.R.R.  Tolkien

	     Benadryl cast a final glance over his shoulder at his peaceful elven
home.  Alas, his home no more!  His pranks had finally brought about the
wrath of the great Council of Mygrayne and he had been cast away, never to
return.  How he would long for song and merriment in the lonely days ahead
as he wandered over Mount Hither to his destination, the far-off village of
Yon.  If only he had heeded his better judgement and not commited such a
cruel and foul jest!  The Elven Princess,  Lady  Amphetamine, hated fish,
and he had the audacity to have slipped a particularly slimy minnow  down
her bodice at the autumn harvest festival and ring-toss.  Now he was paying
for his foolishness...


e.e. cummings

the deepanddark  wetness
						from the depths to the shore

                         listen!

not a sound 
				       but
                   sloshyfishybreath

breath without breathing
               watersounds

deep and dark and slimycold
fish.


Edgar Allan Poe

				...but at last I invented a plan to avenge the wrongs committed against
me by the spiteful Raddicchio.  To ease the torments of my soul, I  knew I
must  increase tenfold the torment of his.  I knew  Raddicchio's weakness. 
Like any sensible  mortal, he loathed the inhuman horror known to man as
"fish,"  but his fear of the species was particularly crippling. 
Therefore, for my  plan I chose a particularly cold and bloated specimen
with pale, unseeing eyes.  Its mouth opened and shut dumbly as if it could
taste my enemy's fear.  Ah, yes...Raddicchio  would  scream this night...


Ogden Nash

I don't like fish
It's fish I hate
If on my dish 
Or on my plate

They're wet and cold
They  make me mad
They're hard to hold
Yes, fish are bad.



					See?  Fish are yecchy!   Please, please, please knock of the fish
talk,  or at least start another board  called "swat.rec.fish"  or
something so that swat.misc.useless users like me don't have to be exposed
to this constant fish talk.  One doesn't have to like fish to be useless!

			                                                                        
                            Oreos to all (hold the lox),
					                                                                      
                           Lisa E. Stef.