118 - Shallow Deep
..Thus, the buffoon
Named Shallow Deep
Laughed at Roy:
“What’s luck, but doomed
Faith, Captain? SLEEP
MALADROIT!”
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Maladroit
Lacked the joy
Shallow Deep
Had beneath
Maladroit’s
Panicked noise
At the sea
As it screamed..
Fast asleep
Shallow Deep
Had the void’s
Valor - joy
As he dreamed
And, if sweet,
Can‘t avoid
Maladroit’s
Frantic Freud
Phantom foil:
Tragedy
Unmanfully
Handed boys:
That annoyed
Shallow Deep
Snatched from sleep:
“Can’t I see
The crashin sea
As a breeze
If that, a sneeze?”
“Your hope’s a lie:
We’re going to die!”
Said Captain Roy
Maladroit
To that absurd
Passenger:
“Shallow, sir
We have to turn
Aft - to stern
And return
Back to berth:
Back to earth!”
Shallow cursed
And observed
“While your mother’s womb awaits:
Your arrival’s
More inclined to
Find another tomb with haste..
Find some tougher crew to mate
Ice above with sutured veins..
Sweet purple port!
I SLEEP DURING STORMS!
Don’t disturb me,
Hope perturbs me:
Fear, to me’s
A guarantee
That don’t deserve me
Hope, or mercy:
Fear the sea
You parish priest?!
Fear’s a reef
That’s near the beach
Of fear’s belief
And where it flees
A scary sea:
A pharaoh speeds
To where it’s cleaved
Then buried deep
Cuz shallow’s
A shadow:
The secret
Of deep, wet
Work
As it lurks
In the blackest
Of madness..”
To Captain Roy
Maladroit
Shallow Deep’s
Wrath increased
As did joy
At the noise
Captain screamed
Cast to sea..
What that diseased
Man’s conceit
Can’t achieve
Has - it sleeps..
And appeased
A happy sea
As it ceased:
As a breeze..