The Fish Kin

This poem is conversation between two Fish Kings facing electrofishing. Electrofishing uses direct current electricity flowing between a submerged cathode and anode. This affects the movement of the fish so that they swim toward the anode, where they can be caught.

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Welcome said the Fish King,

Did you get a spin?

This pond is full of grin

Sunny side, have you been?

Mystical reefs Sparklin

Lately it is full of florin

but that's where you find bloodfin

Last year my harem had two thousand yin

in fact two of them had quin

But this year two million couldn't fin!

And now survival is a win

for worse we have some sin

I have a friend with mandolin

who told amphibians are killin

and we are seen as lot of protein!?

in fish-lingo they are assassin

oh my kin, you are the New King!

here is your royal pin

And we all fold our shin

Good luck my Viking

Pardon I had some gin

old bones have started crackin

Soon I will be fightin

I will go near red Zeppelin

find why we all die with a din

I heard it pains like pushpin

how bad it could be than water ricin

But wish we survive, Amin!

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World have enough Lion Kings,
what we need is humble fish kins!

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REFERENCES:

florin - A coin worth two shillings

quin - five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy

din - a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise

zeppelin - Used as an Anode where fishes swim and gets caught. A long and cylindrical ship with a rigid framework used during World War I for reconnaissance and bombing