If Wishes Were Fishes
By Jim Busby
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my mother, Helen Busby. Without her words of wisdom this book would not have been conceived.
Biography
Jim Busby is a part time writer, poet, artist and photographer. He believes there is no greater gift than to put a smile on a childs face. He can be reached through email at: wabbittwacks686@yahoo.com
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When I was a child I said, “it would be cool, to have money, a yacht, and a big swimming pool�
and mother would say, just remember this rule,” “If wishes were fishes the sea would be full!”
The sea would be full! What a wonderful sight! I could go fishing, both day and at night!
Just dip in a net to the left or the right Oh, lifting it up would take all my might.
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I’d wish for more wishes, I certainly would. Call all of my friends and see if they could wish for more fishes,
I think that they should. We’ll fill up the ocean, yes! That would be good.
Wishing is Fun
I Love Fish
I Love Fish
Let’s wish for some salmon, some tuna and bass. Catch swordfish and cod, with the rest of my class.
I’d keep wishing and wishing, and quick as a flash,
We’d play and we’d laugh, have a big fishy bash.
But boat captain O’ Leary said in a huff, I don’t agree with this fish wishing stuff.
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I make my living and it’s very tough, I travel the oceans in seas smooth or rough.
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The cargo I carry is my SOLE bread and butter. Without my ship I would live in the gutter.
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Frustrated am I, and it SO makes me mutter, I can’t sail the seas, when there’s fish in my rudder! Sole CARGO
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So the fishes they pondered as fishies will do and found a solution, one tried and true.
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I told the good captain, “Now don’t you be blue.” Go down to the dock and load up your crew”.
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The fish they all gathered, ten, twenty, and more. Then an ocean of fishes, ten million plus four.
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They lifted the ship with strength from their core. Passed it and passed it away from the shore.
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They carried the ship, while the captain stood tall, to a far away land; the ships port of call.
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Delivered the cargo, and the captain sure saw, that wishes for fishes was good for us all.
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The End