The sea speaks in capricious tongues
Hums like velvet, then sharply stuns
Kisses the rocks, then claws them apart
A fickle companion, a mercurial heart

A slimy thing upon the sea
A frightened fragment of the Real
Lurking at the wedding hall
Seeking drink to douse it all

A cocktail slithers past the teeth
Down the hatch, while drunkard sleeps
Reeling through deluded states
Borderlining peace and rage

Caliban’s focus goes amiss
Ballooning like a pufferfish
The chest swells up, bravado spikes
As synapses misfire in spite