sharkfoot

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lyrics

once upon a time
before the seafloor
knew the slick sliding touch
of oil and grime
it knew the scoot
of a shark's scaled stomach
green with algal slime

twisted, tough, taut
genetically wrought
from those joyful offspring of Olympus
the smooth musculature
and skeletal structure
of where the tail of a shark would be was
the foot of a human
instead of two tail fins

once long, long ago
before the wavecrest
broke beneath the beating
of rudder and row
it knew the slosh
of granular sand squeezing
twixt barnacled toes

the shark’s teeth tore
with ease and with pleasure
at the orangey-pink feathers of flesh
of all fish so hapless
to fall in their caress
though with such a horror few’s fate would mesh
for the shark could not swim

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released June 18, 2015
matthew robinson - lyrics
cody fowler - music

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