Spat from the sea,

Onto the beach that’s me,

Didn’t fit in, ain’t it a sin,

Gave me legs, cut off me fin…

Beached is this swimmer of myriad seas,

Blessed to be supposedly better than thee,

But could not take that responsibility,

I was then banished by royal decree…

Then they up and sank into the Atlantic,

Leaving me no note in a bottle,

Guess they meant it when they said I was not to be coddled,

Here now I live in this tube surrounded by air,

Sometimes I think it quite unfair,

But I do live and Atlantis did drown, oh well…so there…

© ed J 3/17/07