Do you hear the salty briney bastard
grinding its teeth? All day and all through the night. For as long as
there has been a world. Churning and fooshing. Splashing. Spurting.
Squirting. Loads of it. Massive amounts of it. Imagine lying at the
bottom of it. Imagine it sitting on your chest. Crushing your ribs
and denying you breath. A soundless death in the soundless depths.You
wouldn't fuck with it. The scrotumtightening assassin. The snotgreen murderer. It'll kill ya! It was
once a friend of mine. It played with me when I was a child. Lifting
me in its swells and gently putting me back down again. But then I
found the dog, drowned, circled by flies, wrapped in seaweed like
ribbons and bows on a parcel. A sick gift. Spat up and
left on the wet sand with a gurgling snigger. Why would the sea do
such a thing? 'What are you going to do about it?' said the sea to me
and I shrugged. The sea does what it likes. The sea is proper
gangsta. The sea kicks the shit out the land and exhausted shelves
collapse into it. Pwned! The sea is a tough nut, a hard chaw, a total
knacker. The sea is hungry and never stops eating. It'll clean the
plate - the continental plates, licked clean. Sometimes you can hear
the fucker belch. Humanity crawled out from the sea on its pitiful
belly and humanity will get eaten by the sea and left belly up. We'll
all be soaking again soon, floated and bloated, drifting dead amongst
the remains of our world. A big human stew stirred by the currents
and pecked by gulls. And it won't be revenge for our folly, it will
just be. The sea will decide that our time is up and we'll see it
standing up, on the horizon, and rushing forward, silent at first,
then hissing like static, then roaring like a monster army, charging
onto the earth. It'll put this planet in its great wet blue grey
green belly. It used provide us with fish suppers but soon it'll have
us all for dinner.
'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
so do our minutes hasten to their end.'
'Claimed by the sea and it
was always going to be.'
You see?
