a wave-blurred portrait

Enough of romanticised sirens and their songs, enough.
An anti-siren song, for a change -- for something truer to life.

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My life is hung up
in the flood
  a wave-blurred
             portrait

Don't fall in love
with this face--
   it no longer exists
              in water
                    we cannot fish


            --Lorine Niedecker