There Once Was a Fish (Monday Poem)

There once was a fish.
(What more could you wish?)
He lived in the sea.
(Where else would he be?)
He was caught on a line.
(Whose line if not mine?)
So I brought him to you.
(What else should I do?)



from Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes collected by Elizabeth Hammill, 2015, Candlewick