We took turns shoveling dirt
to dig a hole
in the backyard
Gonna make us a fish pond!
Carefully fitted
a 110-gallon phallus-shaped hard plastic mold
into the earth
Filled it with water from the hosepipe
and let it sit for weeks
Warming up
getting ready for koi

water turned green,
bright green!
A million tadpoles took lodging
among drowned worms and skating skeeters
in our algae cesspool
The kids came over to check the progress
The 2 year old spoke his observation
"Doody wooder!"
"Doody wooder!"

Paid $3.29 each for three fantailed fish
weighing about 1 ounce apiece
That's $52.64 per pound
plus tax
No wonder they're called GOLDfish
With the advice of the highly trained expert at Aquatic Critter
we installed a pump and filter
which promptly churned the water into pea soup
We added the goldfish nuggets to the soup
on Saturday
Didn't see them again 'til the Tuesday after Easter
when we drained the pool
by hand
with the dog's water bowl
Caught number three on the final dip
Now we have 3 fish in a big red bucket
while waiting for the chlorine
to fritter away from the in-ground pond
Somebody stop the dog
She's drinking fish broth from the bucket again.