Learn to Float

Long gone are the days

Where you're blue in the face.

Skipped off like a stone,

I hope you learn to float.

A foregone conclusion,

I would go drown in the well again.

Now, that whole plan's been shot down.

Breaking off the grip my

Open mouth had over my bones.

I sunk right through the cushions of your

Fold-out sofa bed on 96th street.

You were throwing me a line.

I learned to take a dive.

I miss the taste, but I'm over it.

Stuck in this place, but I'm over it.

I want you to find out, but I don't know how.