Drowning Nightmare 1

from The Regional Variations by Swimmer One

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if we stay in this place we will drown, we are lost.
there must be an exit. where’s the host? he should know,
but all he can do is stare at your chest.
he wants to know details, wants to hear us confess.

the boat’s overturned, no one here has got long
so the host keeps them calm with some gossip, jokes, and songs.
we just want to know if there are rafts or a flare.
they just want to know if you scream, what you wear.

he says: ‘if you don’t survive the ratings will go through the roof for this.
you can’t want to die without the world having a chance to know you.
you have 15 minutes of air, you should make your seconds count.
do you keep on going till you’re numb?
what sound do you make when you come?’

and nobody says: ‘this is insane.’
and nobody says: ‘leave these people alone.’
the water is flooding over the stage and on to the sofa. and nobody says: ‘we’d rather live.’

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from The Regional Variations, released January 9, 2007

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