to ensure even coverage – employ a herringbone pattern – but if direct contact is made – with an energized anode – there is potential for permanent immobilization – keep in mind – shallow water intensifies the voltage gradient – it is generally advisable to – wear resistant gloves – when transferring fish – out of capture fields with dense foliage – or undercut banks – please remember – recovery times vary – across species – introduced for acute biocontrol performance – not only enduring at higher than standard threshold values – regularly check for – atypical substrate oscillations – water lilies are not beautiful – when they are being utilized – against inhabitants – in what is routinely referred to as – aquatic entanglement – at any point – returning equipment to an undesignated locker – will result in – mishandling fees – as well as – limited access to light-duty catarafts – and – suspension from any – or all – of the following activities – step-pool sequence sediment load fluctuation tests – the annual cotton candy machine workshop – fluvial tiddlywinks – naked submersion – after being in the sun – for too long – to collapse – disperse – render quiet the current – its cobbled shiver – a body full – of moss – myrtle – midnight – on the way out – do not disassemble – seek someone – who will say about you – behold – be held –

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The above poem is a segment that was cut from a longer poem titled "Immobilization Techniques." The whole thing was a found-poem in dialogue with source texts that oscillated between electrofishing ethics, corporate opioid manufacturing settlements, crosswalk legalese, and idk donut holes or something. TBH, I do not like how that project turned out, not at all. I wish I hadn't spent so much time on it. It's tonally all over the place and takes itself too seriously while at the same not taking itself seriously enough. The best thing about it was this poem here ↑, which I didn't even end up including. I like it because its eerie and romantic as if the sprawling structure of a Jane Austen sentence has been filtered through the jargon of an electrofishing backpack assembly manual.