chain a weight to my ankles.
take the air from my lungs.
wrap my limbs with seaweed ropes.
blind my open eyes with dusty water.
sink sink
drag me down
to the bottom of the river.
algae covers the surface above
to shield my sinking.
pierce my cheek with a baited hook
then toss me back in.
when you catch me again,
bind my feet
and make me river bass,
distant and passive.
a hiss of pressure
taps my skull, intruding
on my descent.
as the oxygen flees
my brain bears the weight.
I have a choice
to puff my chest and float or
drown, bound and powerless.
thrash and jerk
I sink deeper.
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