Myth

I would wade into water retention pools.

Breast-level deep and up to my eyeballs in algae.

I would cannonball into stillwater.

Brain-eating amoebas flooding my brain.

Through the nose, which they’d lace a tube through,

I’d beep to death in the hospital.

 

But, for a moment, I’d be Lady of Shalott,

or Ophelia, or any one of those waterlogged bitches.…

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