It's not a goal, as such, more like a corner or a throw-in,

but I wish that I could be in somebody else's poem.

It would be fame of a sort, though not the kind that can be sought;

it happens by chance and is in other hands.....

or perhaps it could be planned!

Can it be so hard to locate a versifier,

an unsuspecting bard, the type that won't inquire

into my raison d'etre and ultimate designs;

I only want to get her to let me in her lines.

Yes, I'd prefer a her, I mean a poetess,

a Carol Ann Duffy, whowe name would impress

when I dropped it casually in company,

"You know that bloke who killed the goldfish, that was me."