Poetry Exercise #1: Describe Something Familiar

Object

Wrapped in blue foil, your eye is drawn
to violet text and painted fish;
those dead, those fish that smiling hook
but argue never with consumers.

Does “Dolphin Safe” mean “Manatee”
or “Pilot Whale” or “Orca” Safe?

Luring lines, angled thoughts of call
this number MON-FRI, let us hear.
The front shows butchered rolls of sea
children and wedges sliced of lime.