the sailor just swallowed   the sea   he did not seem to react the entire audience was a silencer on his pistol   communal radiance the bullets finding their marks in the fleshy targets against the nautical wall we looked at each other, our frail bodies threading the tips of the steel blue freezing water leaving surreal clouds of red blood oozing from multiple bullet holes across the torn ocean surface we spread our legs churning black intestinal cum puss blood (whatever)     the shadow of the sharp white iceberg bathing in nauseating hi-octane aroma of rusted metal    sharp oxidized copper filled our    misled umbilical senses i stream  suddenly by rain i bled memoirs   all i can offer   empty swollen anchor  i was soon spent   sinking  facing     pointing skyward carpet-bound spill index.html