Salvador Dali visits the promenade

[ti_jean]

because i care, i let you drown me over and over
so often i don't know what
water feels like anymore.
weeks ago i was helping the prophets
with scrolls. longer ago i traveled
through a forest time kept to itself
because everything is selfish
and i forget everything i have ever done
as i am drowning

and all in a moment there was some sort
of galleria assembled at my helm
where brilliant statues of marble
crushed on the rocks of a tiny shore.

i fainted and slept it off
like an unwanted drunk apparition

i only wanted to be there
when the statues all took off their clothes
and beside me drowned.