Called himself Ishmael when he flipped the fish scale Slit wide open, pull out the entrails Stumbled out dark stairwell, light two ounces Blood filling his J's outside the river houses Twisting in the south, my hand coiled double helix Through the looking glass, separated body from the spirit Light the L, split the veil from the peak of Machu Picchu To the belly of the whale, sip the grail Depth charge Burst above us, ears covered, dive 'til hope shutters No rudder, ambergris whale blubber The sea is a beast, landlubbers scream for wives, mothers Bleached bones blown on rocky beach beset by buzzards Study science of the self, move four to three kings Cork welts, Orion's belt, still sagging Lightning pass in a trap house of flying daggers Feet up on glass tables, feeling fatalistic Blood in the water (you dead on this corner) Blood in the water (you dead on the corner) Blood in the water (you dead on this corner) Blood in the water (you dead on the corner) Kaleidoscopic, black agnostic Bought my burial plot on Craigslist, rock bottom discount Extinction agenda, supreme rallies in Baisley Black hoodie, black Timbs, oh, the gods must be crazy Peonies and daisies, cocaine '80s Cop killer queen, she raised me from the dregs Dead lectures on a ship named Jesus Sinkin' faster, it's all a trap Atlantic floor to haunted tabernacles Off the coast of Formosa, send them to the ocean floor No mea culpa, send boys to war Deep water, she seemed gorgeous Map and compass, gat in cutlass Boat black as dungeon, smoke crack pungent Leviathan looms, a hundred harpoons plunging The loom winds its way to days of judgment Your doom finds you lying awake and lunges Blood in the water (you dead on this corner) Blood in the water (you dead on the corner) Blood in the water (you dead on this corner) Blood in the water (you dead on the corner) Blood in the water (you dead on this corner) Blood in the water (you dead on the corner) Blood in the water (you dead on this corner) Blood in the water (you dead on the corner)