Swim

Sink to the bottom
Only to wind up belly up
On your bedroom floor
Innocuous form
I’m underwater
For half of the day but still you wade till I’m ready to float
And carry me home
(Goodbye to my mother who taught me to swim)

We’ll be alright in the morning
When the world is on fire we’ll be treading in the yard till I’m ready to float
And you carry me home

And we’re dancing outside in the purple dark
By the blood that we shed on the boulevard
I know that you’ll carry me home
Carry me home

Locked to the love seat
Flash me your front teeth
It’s cherry and bone
Cherry and bone

You are the athlete
I am the astronaut for thousands of miles I float
Still you carry me home

Goodbye to my mother
Whose body I lived in
Turned blood into water
And taught me to swim