UNWILLING SWIMMER
Bubbles break the surfaceCO2s the gas
I'm afraid there's something down there
Putrefying in the darkness
There must be a rational cause
Maybe littering by tourists
Until soon I won't consider
The alternatives at all
The pool's a nervous place
Now a suspicion lurks
And the water's still as murky
As the first day that I noticed
I still laugh at myself
Lack of imagination
Normally requires patience
And a horror-filter system
Bubbles break the surface
And I try not to question
I hope that that's a shadow
And not a human face
They pulled her out that evening
An unwilling swimmer
And I empathise
Just try to imagine, the course
Putrefying in the darkness
You'd lose all sense of self
Surrender and be nothing
Dissipate away
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Poetry copyright 1999 by David Harrison
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