(Sorry if it’s gory)
The polyp cluster of the sea
Raised its limbs up high
Ensnaring me effortlessly
As I fell from the sky.
While I thrashed within the fronds
Zooplankton did a dance
Bony fish swayed, devolved to form
Ancient elasmobranch.
And holding me were basking sharks
I could’nt drift away
My eyes burst into little sparks
As I hit a manta ray.
Missed my jugular by an inch
(.4 to be exact)
The stinging blow made me flinch
And then I heard a crack-
A dislocated humerus
-and mine! A cosmic joke..
As I struggled with a diagonal truss
My glenoidal labrum broke.
I watched my cartilage drift away
Form a gradient in steps
Spurred by this act, the manta ray
Began dissection more complex.
As it lashed out I felt twelve bursts
Ribs ground to an osseo-crumb
Eleven and twelve gave way first
Being unattached to my sternum.
In the emerald bay, red pools abound
Blood streams and I cease my action
Meanwhile the water that surrounds
Changes its coefficients of refraction.
Suddenly out flowed the tide
And flung me to the sky
Waiting for vertigo to subside
I was swooped on by a fly.
As I made eye contact with it,
I was outstared by its glance
Against those numerous ommatids
I really had no chance.
Trapped by a giant mutant fly!
A white minus Drosophila
I found, on looking above its eye
‘Twas also Antennapedia.
Flying with steady, practised flaps
We hit a cloud of smoke
I felt my alveoli collapse
As I began to choke.
Much before I saw the anthrax leer
I felt the deadly toxin
In vain the fly’s attempts to veer
We needed Ciprofloxacin.
The fly succumbed, let go of me
I fell through ozone holes
And landed in a magma sea
Of spewing, suffering souls.
I smelt the smoke and heard the hiss
And felt the thermophiles
Slithering up my epiglottis
Like globulets of bile.
As they sucked, they grew in sheen
I felt my fluids drain
Selectively they chose my spleen
But left untouched my brain..
My brain, afloat ‘midst fiery dunes
Swam at a rapid pace
So fast it spun that it was soon
Hurled into outer space.
Whizzing through horizons bright
Felt wild and young and free
And suddenly, distinctly light
As I changed to energy.
Then there it loomed – a giant hole
I guessed (I couldn't see)
Its emptiness outstretched my goal
Vacuity engulfed me.
Then just as sudden it collapsed
Of dirth there was a dirth
Before any more time elapsed
I targeted the Earth.
The polyp cluster of the sea
Raised its limbs up high
Ensnaring me effortlessly
As I fell from the sky.
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