show care, snow crab

two hours dark
cramped bus ride
later and a forty
minute walk and
i return to the smell
of clean carpet and
the unnerving light
of everything in its
proper place including
me socks off jacks
off an onset-arthritis
prince maxing out
every pleasure receptor
abstracting satisfaction
from physiological
monotony waiting
on the day where
the switch is flipped
and bam i scuttle
wherever i want caring
not for who holds me
but pinching myself
with claws thinking
this underwater life
can't be real