Drowning from Dick Hickey by Dick Hickey

I can feel myself drowning
and there's no one around but me-only me.
And I'm covered in crashing waves
and I've swallowed half of the sea.
The sharks are circling nearby
they've caught a whiff of my growing fear.
I'm sucked down in the riptide
and there's no way to tell if the coast is clear.

I can feel myself plummeting.
Being weighed down by huge slabs of concrete.
Schools of fish are watching-
-me getting tangled in the seaweed.
Well, I try to grasp for air!
But my respirator has seemed to fail me.
I beckon for the sunshine.
As I drop into the deep

I can't swim
and I can't see straight
and the shadows on the wall
keep growing.

• Punk
• Port Huron