Swimming on linoleum POW prompt #6 a cento

We had goldfish and they circled around and around

and when my father got home he threw them to the cat

Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw

The carcase of a beauty spent and done

To give life you must take life,

and as our grief falls flat and hollow


Swifter than the moon's sphere;

And I serve the Fairy Queen

then somebody behind you laughs.

it's a cork laugh filled with sand and

broken glass.

Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me

But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit;


I sit in the room

with them

and they taunt me

with their agony;

TELL me where is Fancy bred,

Or in the heart or in the head?

How begot, how nourished?

reply, reply.

 
Process notes:
William Shakespeare

A lover's complaint
A fairy song
Love
How like a winter hath my absence been

Charles Bukowski

2 flies
Another day
A smile to remember
As the sparrow