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Fish’s Night Song
Here’s Christian Morgenstern’s (1871-1914) “Fisches Nachtgesang,” or, “Fish’s Night Song.”

It’s one more example of American parochialism that nowhere in Bartlett’s Quotations is a line of this poem reproduced.
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 by Daisy Fried.

Comments (4)
Hm. Well, fans of the fish above might like to know about “Fisches Nachtgesang – an art-music band from Finland. We write our own material based on the lyrics of the nonsense-poet Christian Morgenstern.”
Check out their video!
“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”
- Steven Wright
one of my favorite concrete poems
looks to me like lines of spondees alternating with lines of pyrrhics—I just peformed it using the schwa sound and it sounds really cool.