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Momma was screaming.

Great buckets of water were brought.

Every knot in the house was untied.

Then, with the final opening of a chest of drawers

I emerged.

I climbed aboard my father's scaffold

and ascended through my life

catching the updrafts when I could.

And then we became Angels.

We looked down upon this Earth

and we said, "Let us go there!"

We dove down through the clouds

down through the ocean,

down onto the bottom of the sea

where nothing is as nothing was

as nothing is as it was meant to be.

Down there on the bottom of the sea.

We found things down there that we

never knew existed and all of our

preconceptions became somehow twisted

down there on the bottom of the sea

where nothing is as nothing was as nothing

is as it was meant to be.

We found Sea Shells, and Mermaids, and Leviathans,

and fish that glowed green, phosphorescent in the dark.

And we found the currents grew colder as we got older,

down there on the bottom of the sea, where nothing is

as nothing was as nothing is as it was meant to be.

Down there on the bottom of the sea.

And now we swim from town to town and sometimes

we yearn for sold ground.

And we find solace where ever solace can be found

by singing our songs to all the other angels

that are all around.

And we walk from town to town and sometimes

we yearn for solid ground,

down there on the bottom of the sea, where nothing is

as nothing was as nothing is as it was meant to be.

Down there on the bottom of the sea.

Momma was screaming.

Great buckets of water were brought.

Every knot in the house was untied.

And then with the opening of a chest of drawers

I emerged!

I climbed aboard my father's scaffold

and ascend through my life,

catching the updrafts when ever I could.

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