U-Boats - Billy Woods

Called himself Ishmael when he flipped the fishscale

Slit wide open, pull out the entrails

Stumbled out dark stairwell, light two ounces

Blood filling his J’s outside the river houses

Twisting in the south, my hand coiled double helix

Through the looking glass, separated body from the spirit

Light the L, split the veil from the peak of Machu Picchu

To the belly of the whale, sip the grail

Depth charge

Burst above us, ears covered, dive till hope shutters

No rudder, ambergris whale blubber

The sea is a beast, landlubbers scream for wives, mothers

Bleached bones blown on rocky beach beset by buzzards

Study science of the self, move four to three kings

Cork welts, Orion’s belt, still sagging

Lightning pass in a trap house of flying daggers

Feet up on glass tables, feeling fatalistic

Blood in the water

(You dead on this corner!)

Blood in the water

(You dead on the corner!) (x2)

Kaleidoscopic, black agnostic

Bought my burial plot on Craigslist, rock bottom discount

Extinction agenda, supreme rallies me

Black hoodie, black Timbs, oh the gods must be crazy

Peonies and daisies, cocaine 80's

Cop killer queen, she raised me from the dregs

Dead lectures on a ship named Jesus

Sinkin' faster, it’s all a trap

Atlantic floor to hornet tabernacles

Off the coast of Formosa, send them to the ocean floor

No mea culpa, send boys to war

Deep water, she seemed gorgeous

Map, they compass, gat in cutlass, boat black as dungeon

Smoke crack pungent

Leviathan looms, a hundred harpoons plunging

The loom winds its way to days of judgement

Your doom finds you lying awake and lunges