Anglerfish

winning

is my wheelhouse 

and that is why

I never admit

that the contest

is a contest

or the race is a race 

I am 

the anglerfish 

my illicium 

is shining 

under the sea

like a star 

and we both know

how this old song 

this base-born ballad

of the two Magicians 

brings the curtain 

down

my Astyanax

my alter ego

you know 

just how to defeat 

me, and isn’t that 

the lure and the bait

to see who can 

turn the best 

tricks