oh the conundrum, the ordeal, the living, situation. The flood won't forgive a thing— embrace it! And, banish yourself from an internalized narrative of unpurged, unexpelled lives. FRAUDS will DECEIVE YOU, CORRAL, NEGLECT, AND CULL. Keep your distance do not submit when mountains are staggering in drunken fits. Fruitful, fertile fledgings radiating in your splendor, your majesty your brilliance prance and praise as you are herded into the ocean. soiled lambs, runoff like storm water. gestate and germinate like an algal bloom. propagate, proliferate, your spirit renewed. do not mistake my steering as using as there is no use in using. and who am I to control those who already let go. I sorted through the lies and beneath the sea tears cannot be cried. I AM THE SHARKHERDER. And to think we were once fish ignores what we are now. fish in vitro, born a naked ape, and in death chum. fish listen to the language of salt so let us speak it, so let us drink it. hope is not gone. repeat after me: this raft I am afloat, no turning back, no going home.