You said I am a fool's ransom
and I believed you.
The words were sweetened with something not of this earth.
I said I caught the rain in my upturned sunhat.
But the floods kept coming and the ocean filled my eyes, turning them sea foam.
We sipped saltwater and talked about tattoos we wanted,
I a Phoenix,
you a carnivorous zombie.
You told me I look like a starfish. And I said you feel like one.
Stuck to my shoe at the bottom of the sea.
