Fishing Nots
A fishing knot
my fishing father never
asked me tie,
the liar knot,
hooks the biggest fish
you’ve been hooking for,
“deep within a liar knot
a piece of line has crossed over
another piece,”
this line you’re using,
slipped from my
tackle box,
without attribution,
though buried in your reel,
bears my name,
“This will act like a scythe
when the knot is
jerked tight,”
when the pressure’s most on you
the biggest fish of all
does not resist,
truth will out the slacker’s knot,
back it lays and plays with you,
(to the Master Poet’s credit)
“saliva allows the twists and
turns to slide over themselves
as the knot is tightened,”
spitting on your friend
the double not a true fisherman
will never engage.
(On being plagiarized)
(quotes from http://www.bishfish.co.nz/articles/general/notknot.htm
Justice Greg Hobbs, Into The Grand at 78 (Colorado Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. 2012)
