“ ‘Under The Sea’ “
Stale,
Mild,
Foul maybe,
Or sweet to be,
But I’d for sure agree
I’m for sure smelling
Ammonia-
At least surely from up high.
Inhaling
Makes me nauseous
And suffocate.
Cant distinguish between left or right
When I drink.
But when I eat,
It’s all the same
When I get sick
It defy’s away
And when I listen-
It’s all so fuzzy,
But when I hear-
It’s all so inaudible,
And I guess
So-
I guess
I can’t really hear anything.
Nothing but infrequent-
Groans and growls,
Or low swooshing
Nothing much to make out,
If I could open my eyes
I’d see things die
And when I do-
You’d think it’d be blue
But down here
There’s nothing
To see.
But maybe a flashlight
Maybe a light
That you’d have to leave from,
Discard
In a fright.
And so how I feel-
What I feel,
Well I feel this
And I feel that
And I feel those
And wow to a great extent,
But the deeper I go
The lower you flow
The further you float-
I can’t feel anything.
In fact it’s quite cold,
I’d even say glacial,
But there’s no Jack Frost nipping at your nose,
There’s no snow.
Things move but not down with me,
Things zoom and travel right past me-
And so far,
Nothing’s come from up or down,
And it’s too cold to frown.
I can’t cry or feel-
My-
Self sigh.
When I sigh it’s a low gurgle.
When I cry- well,
I can’t.
And with my eye,
There are no stars
When I look up-
I can’t see mars
When I look down-
I can’t see a town,
Or a cloud,
Or anybody out,
Because I’m not in the sky.
And so
And so
And sink
I sink
I fall-
And float-
But never up.
I fall slow
I don’t glide,
And there will never be-
Any place to hide,
Nobody to confide-
In,
Unless they’ve died.