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How Not To Drown

Frank DeCanio

Well drowning’s not the problem.
It’s trying to swim where you shouldn’t
be in the first place.
It’s treading murky, turbulent seas;
lying on a rocky slope
at the water’s edge
where you know you’re going to
to lose your balance
and plummet in its depths.
With bold, futile strokes you race
against the tide
after just having a hearty meal.

Drowning’s not the problem,
but its fatal consequence;
the issue that ensues
when troubling still waters,
wading waist-deep
on a breezy day
when you know the undertow
might pull you from the shore.
It’s getting wet in the first place;
flirting with an element
that only those with flippers
and the will and way are wise to navigate.


BLACK BOOK PRESS #38

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