O merfolk

You, and others

Baring royal gifts

Armor

Golden ornaments, magical

For the worthy woman

To survive- live

Lush underwater prairies

And alpine retreats.

Submerge

Any desire emergency

The want of fiery planets

Because flight

Is not unlike the scratch

Playground mishap

Tripping the ungrateful switch.

Please

Remain still

Dished among tickling ires

Pleaded once

By the Co-founding doorstep

Past lifeless

Dogbound perfume

Tightrope antics

Let’s practice negligent,

Impressionist thumbpics

Collab bro

Charred to no return

Let’s time swirm

At your depth;

With feathers in your wallet

The march begins:

Cremation soliloquy

Shrouds, undignified.

Fuck me, mermaids

Had I known the perils

And the close shaves.

Through your sound,

Propagating energy,

I’m scrubbed like some barnacle:

The bar where mother used to order

Ice tea and lemon granita.

To me

It tastes the same

Now just a tad too sweet

Just like some 40 year old memory

The old barrio

Too hot to walk around

And the wax melts from my ears

Mitigation through department stores AC

Lullabies for my shadow

Giant steps of the ant

Ebbs and flows in the duckpond

We’re not saving the world

We merely follow and conform