We Go by as Water to the Sea

Implacable clouds pour into the seam of the horizon

Casting a vast libretto death-mask O vicious opera

Unrivaled and ever more exact whale song O furious

Knowledge of love whelms and whelms our black

Wings drowning in this nocturnal ocean where we 

Hum the Lord Chancellor's tune a seafloor serenade

What frivolous lyrics pile all upon appalling dreams!

What violence in the atmosphere of such creations

These unraveled but extremely serious commitments

What can survive must have some quality but what

Must be done under such pressure and circumstance

We are the sunken masters of deep-water harmony

We are the vivacious nosebleeds of aquatic nightmares

We’re insouciant singers in this absurd expanse of bliss