Bottom feeders do not know
that they are in fact
bottom feeders

Having been born
into that station in life
they know no other way to be

Eating excrement daily
is a daily thing no more abhorrent
than steak to a carnivore

In the rare instance a bottom feeder
is hooked by a hungry fisherman
it is tossed quickly away in disgust

Unless of course
that hungry fisherman
is more than just hungry

Should the fisherman
perched high upon his watercraft
find himself starving and weak

Then that which was deemed
disgusting to purview previously
now becomes appetizing and appealing

The fisherman eats his fill
until sated and then
discarding the leftovers –

they sink in pieces
back to the bottom
once again