Bathe with salt, she says my healer it will soak
the pain but she is not an astrologer she is clear she cannot
say when it might whorl away the ache trailing
with the salt curling far in a shower my slight it is not slight
it is wilful it is boss this ache it is sky it is
lithe swiping me this way and that
The siren is not what I thought it would be
it does not freeze it is strange to move you can take your wine
they say bunker they ask is this your first time not your last they say
What is siren small talk I am not sure
this is not a tunnel this is sky bringing up the rear and front I think
my family will see this on the news it goes quick you can go
we climb beach full of bodies again like someone wiped it clean
or moved it elsewhere say a mile south anywhere but here
a highway will do that in haste and by design
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