Molecules ride the currents
Feeling like squid
A worthy meal
Aha
Yes
Indeed
The fatal approach
All senses tuned
The final act
Swoosh
What the fuck is this?
All is not as it seems
A double agent squid
Hiding a hellish hook
In its long dead tentacles
The high grade steel
Slices through the corner of her mouth
Escape is now futile
Death is inevitable
A struggle ensues
Better to die fighting
Than to live for nothing
Circles
The only shape the cruel hook allows
While existence waits
Hours pass
A slight tug pulls
And they are off
The water smells like death
It is thick with it
A soup of bad omens
Pulled awkwardly to the surface
The steel sided coffin awaits
A man shouts
This is too much
Thrashing and frothing
It is long too late
Pulled to the side
Argh!!!!!!
Posiedon's fury
A gaff hook buries deep into her stomach
And comes out the other side
Hauled unceremoniously on deck
Thrashing
And frothing
She is pinned
And she is sworn at
And she receives underserving venonmous anger
From her small minded assailent
This is surely Hell
Cold blade
Cold knife
Cold heart
Cold life
More high grade steel
Cold blood explodes across the deck
Somehow the colour of both life and death
And indifference
This time a deep cut behind the gills
Severs her back bone
But the desire to live
Will not be severed for a few hours yet
The cut is deep
It enters the body cavity
The stomach bag spills out onto the deck
And then the high grade steel finishes its callous work
Four slices
One slice for the dorsal fin
One for each of the pectoral fins
One for the bottom of the tail fin
Four bits of cartilage
Cartilage soup
A delicacy
With everything taken
But still looking shark like
Her carcass is tossed back into the oceans jaws
As unceremoniously as she came
Although now it’s just her nerves
Synapses firing
Slower and slower
The occasional muscle spasm
And then stillness
She lays at the bottom in darkness
Almost severed in two
And missing her fins
This is how her spirit leaves her body
This is how she dies
This is how her days end
Cold
Mutilated
And broken