FISH BLOCK Poem by Sergio Raimondi

Because of course even the flow of the fish in the water
well, more specifically: that sharp and extended vertex
of the Patagonian grenadier, useful for moving in multiple
order at one two three four-hundred metres' depth
back at the higher layers of the Atlantic or South Pacific
will end up compacted solidified frozen packaged
in order to adopt the usual form of industrial production


a premium parallelogram of 7.5 kilos of filet of hoki
standardized and universal measure of taste and machines
commerce and transport across similar parallelograms
angles without imperfections and a vacuum smooth surface
exact to dilute the movements of the hand that eviscerates
extracts the epithelium and starts the fine deboning
on board a trawler whose flag doesn't matter that much.