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Goblin Shark
 
Below Bass Straight's thick blankets
Teddy bear urine and psycho
 
In depths black of sleep, 1200 m
I repress: small fins, huge pointed snout, tiny eyes
 
My mind obscures your origins
Learnt to swim, for the last time. Depth bubbled dream dive
 
Blankets over my head
Cold water - bottle lung, sleep -
 
Thoughts plankton remnants, float away for predation
Circling, scooped up by wide, crypt mouths
 
In a state of cataleptic derailment
My brain missed the train from Atlantis.
 
A floater, the term used in crime,
Dredged at dawn, in a net, discovery,
 
Wakes, shock, child, day.

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