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Manatees

from Sea Stories by Ben Levin

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Manatee matinée, they watch us swimming frantically, flapping and snatching at the sea. I sink. I see those sea cows and they just stare and float overhead. My by standing bovine family.

I closed my eyes when I first kissed you. I wanted to feel a broader back, harder arms that could catch me when I fall or swim me to the shore. And I swallow salty death. And through short crashing breaths I think, "I love you."

Down here the manatees don't hear me. They don't see that I am breaking, they don't ponder my motives, they just blame the currents twisting and the pills I was taking, and the gills I am missing. We were fucking in the freezer while my bride and daddy waited. Ah and the way I waded my way into that church, they were the only ones who noticed. They were the only ones who heard. And I taste her drippy lips, runny made up mermaid kiss. And I feel a salty death and through short crashing breaths she said out loud, "I love you."

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from Sea Stories, released February 25, 2014

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