Sailor's Reply Series 3

  (a reply to Siren Song by Margaret Atwood)

What a delight it would be to drown

If you could pull me down and I could 

Lose myself in you

Lose myself in the fantasy

Of saving you from the misery of this

God forsaken rock

Damnation sounds so sweet as a song

On your lips. It won't be long 'till I fall 

Into the ocean and you 

Watch me drown

And the ecstasy

Of your eyes on me as I sink

Below the waves

Is worth the fall 

For all the ways to go

This is the way I would have chosen.

You put the ire in desire

If I could fill

Each of your desires

And have you want

For nothing

Today you drove at the sunset and the clouds were pink 

And you turned Taylor Swift as loud as she would shout

"Shake it off/shake, shake it off" blasted across Front Street

And you pulled into Aliyah's Ice Cream Place, tires screeching

And bought yourself a small chocolate cone

I would have

Bought thousands

Of ice cream cones

If only you would ask

Melody Dean

Inspired by Amanda Palmer's  Melody Dean

Today I fucked him but I wanted it to be you

And I thought about how you told me babies forget how to make their own heart beat

Without the heartbeat of a parent to keep track for them

Sometimes I think my heart is forgetting to beat

And I'm forgetting to breathe

Sometimes I come home at the end of the day and I realize my jaw is clenched tight

But I don't know how long it's been like this and I worry my face will get stuck

And I miss you like a house on fire

And I don't know what to save 

So in the confusion and the burning rubble

And the family photos floating in ashes through the air 

I fucked him

But I wanted to fuck you