The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

by Katya Apekina

When she got something in her head, good luck getting it out.

Aren’t you glad, I want to scream over the music, aren’t you glad to be alive?

You lose your curiosity and you might as well be dead,

Dying is not special. Everybody does it.

I was aware only that the ocean was enormous and that I was very small.