At least this pig wasn’t fin-hooked on a trailer…
A Water Pig Will Not Give Up
Times you bother water pigs
are times well wasted.
So spoke Uncle Walt
at the unbeknownst
edge of his grave.
Now, I choose early spring
to bother them.
That’s when Uncle Walt did.
At the end of a finely tapered
tippet, a spring water
pig will become
immensely annoyed.
Again, that’s how
Uncle Walt put it.
But as I implied,
the grave took him.
The water pigs are still here.
I’ve never seen a rainbow,
a cutthroat, brook or brown
look anything but serious.
A water pig will look funny,
especially when it’s not.
It’s scales designed for battle,
it’s mouth a vacuum hose,
a water pig will not give up.
At least that’s what
Uncle Walt said,
not knowing
at the time
that he soon would.