"The It Reader:" An Analysis of a Poem Never Written

In this poem,
the poet is playing
w/the idea of fantasy,
his allusion (in the first
stanza) to a fish
being his toenail,
is, of course, absurd:
but it moves the reader
into his "box,"
for lack of a better word.

Once the reader
finds ITSELF
w/in the box,
it's only a matter of
time before the poet
tries to close
the lid,
He Simply Can't Help It.

It then becomes
the task of the reader,
to make sure that
it doesn't let ITSELF
become "trapped."

By the fourth stanza,
though,
the outlook is bleak.

The fifth stanza is the
reader's last hope.

If it finds ITSELF
still lost by
the sixth stanza,
it's simply "dead,"
for lack of a better
word.

For this reason,
the seventh stanza
can never be.