Baited hooks sink to the bottom of the pond
A fish from the river is in these parts
A trout
A something
Always a bigger something from some bigger pond
It is unfair when that bigger pond is an ocean
On this side of the pond we know what’s up and down
And on that side they know the difference between right and wrong
For instance, they know that to drop explosives into a pond is a wrong way to kill the fish
And over on this side, we know that the explosives make the bits of fish flesh fly up to the sky and down to ground
But we try to cooperate
We try to honor the bridges that connect us
We bait our hooks and we look to east and to the west
All the others just look ahead
At least on both sides of that great pond we have the sense to look through all sides of the compass
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