Mermaids

the mermaids are dying
their eggs are all empty

(hold a lamp to them
the light shines right through them)

spermatozoa
has washed them a-plenty

(the mermen are troubled
the eggs have not doubled)

as all the farmed oysters
cast pearls before me

the last bit of magic
is lost from the sea

the mermaids are dying
their eggs are all empty
and I'm on the shoreline
amen

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