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#21
Boats rock
Because beneath them is salty broth
Patrolled by  monsters
There’s no finished foundation;
fanged fish predominate,
Mutant marauders,
Bastard boils on the double helix.
Savage sharks swim to the beat of the
blood, pulling themselves up the scent
like a knotted rope.
Nothing separates you from them
but water,
much murkier and insubstantial
than air.