Global/NaPoWriMo
2019
Day
Twenty Nine
HELLO
AM
I
EVEN ME
Sometimes
things don't feel quite right
like
walking backwards or uncontrollable laughter
why
do mad things happen to me
I
went down to the ocean some people call it the briny
but
when the waves came in over my feet
I
had to run back up the beach
it's
not that I don't like getting wet
it's
simply that it makes me dizzy looking out to sea
People
say that it's the salt but I like salt
people
tell me lots of things
I
can't remember most of the things that they tell me
they
say things like
don't
stand too close to the water or you'll get wet
I
think they don't know that I already know these things
even
though sometimes I sort of forget
like
I said to the people on the beach I asked them really
but
they ignored me hello am I even me
they
must have thought that I was talking to myself
or
to my secret friend as one of them put it
Okay
I said why can't you drink seawater
nobody
really knew and then I remembered
the
story about a Frenchman who was shipwrecked
and
survived many days in the blue how did he do it
by
drinking a tiny sip of seawater every day
that's
what he told me anyway
29042019
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