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He sat there,
4 days,
Looking down,
The Mop of his head resting on his knuckles,

His other hand stirring all the fine sand,
Dry,
Sparkling in the moonlight,

Recalling everything he had looked down on,
Bugs,
Rocks,
Animals,
Others like him,
He got on top of them,
looked in them,
and found nothing,
still looking down for something,
He dosed off,
Head Slipping off his knucklesâEU¦âEU¦..

A fish with a healthy set of scales walked up,
seeing the man had not eaten in a while,
by his pale complextion,
The fish spoke,
into the ear hole,
fish lips tickling the the ear hairs,
in a raspy old fish man voice,

"If you can catch me"
the fish looks around as if someone else is listening,
lips back in the ear,
"You can eat Me"
The Fish Turns around and struts back into the riverâEU¦..

Startled, awakening in a haze,
The man was paralyzed,
as he watched the fish who had looked up at him,
Not thinking Twice about the words he heard,
The man scanned himself for bait,
He found the only thing he had left and the only thing of value,
A gold ring,
he attached it to the hook on his rod and cast it into the river,

A moment passed, and another,
But no sooner before the third could pass,
There was a tug on his line.

Reeling in,
And Pulling out,
He could now see he had caught the fish in his dream like state.

"I knew I could catch you"
but now realizing he didnt want to eat,

The Fish,
Thats no reward,
The gamble, the catch was rewarding

Throwing away the last thing of value,
that was no use for a fish,
Just to end up with a fish that looked like every other,
This Fish was the only challenge of anything that ever looked up to the man,
A fish offering itself in entirety,

So he threw the fish back,
The fish Jumped away in the river,
High enough for the man to realize,
The sky is as Sandy as his toes,

He Never looked down again,
He would Stir the night sky for the rest of his life,
Wanting something bigger to catch and consume him.