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DEATH BY WATER pt XI of The Waste Land cycle by Joel Sattler, TS Eliot


death by water
death by water
Phlebas the Phoenician
found the death he sought

dead for this a fortnight
the cry of gulls forgot
in the deep sea swell
the profit and the loss

a current under sea
in whispers picked his bones
as he rose and fell
in watery grave alone

and as he was corrupted
through youth and all his ages
the whirlpool then he entered
through time and all its stages

be Gentile or be Jew
oh you who turn the wheel
and look to windward think of
the man who can not feel

and you who once was handsome
till ocean conquered too
consider Phlebus done
who once was tall as you

death by water
death by water
Phlebas the Phoenician
found the death he sought

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