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THE SHARK CAGE
Scuba
when you’re underwater
finding form without light
all alone
in the steel gray asylum
restricted again
trying to sleep
but it’s the pressure at night
that gives you the bends

Scuba
cuz yer knife is sharp
cut knuckles from a blood-knuckle scrap
with mean-ass hillbilly fireman
both of us drunk on tequila
and me holding hands inside the saltwater
the blood dripping
the killer fish waiting

Scuba
in the shark cage again
cuz the skipper trapped me
with the paraphernalia of the damned
by breaking into private locker
and stealing swag of sanity/insanity
of mescal + worms
of homemade stoner pipes
of small brown bottle of coke
of bag of green California dopey-dope
of cross-top speed caps
etc.

30 more days
restricted to the ship
extra duty
no pay
a haggard zombie
wandering the decks
searching for the heartbeat
while the world bounced outside
and I ate
those contraband mushrooms
and chewed Dubble Bubble gum
underwater …
underwater …
Scuba.