Poems of the Week

It’s Offishal

by Alex Steelsmith

“2-foot-tall cow posthumously recognized as world’s shortest.”
UPI

“Catfish eaten before being verified can’t qualify for record.”
ABC News

Higgledy-fickledy,
bovine mammalians
no longer living are
recognized, but

fish are disqualified
post-existentially.
What’s with the rules? Are they
fishy, or what?