Wednesday, June 27, 2012

There Was an Old Woman Who Fell Into the Sea

How did it feel,
when you plunged
into the unforgiving arms
of the North Atlantic?


She was eaten up,
for how the sea loved her so-
it made a regal feast of her,


and as she drifted down, her 
legs must have been replaced-
granted life in a sparkling grotto.


The drop off the hulk of steel
wound round her like eels shivering
down her body. Cool alternating currents
as the sea admitted passage


into the abyss, and a gasp from
starboard, but she cried
"don't fret, my friends!"
as a wave folded over her form.


There was an old woman who fell into the
sea, and she roams
along the shoals
wearing skirt of 
seafoam,
trailing seaweed
and
stars.

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