Minotaur Forgiving the White Bull - Moonface, Spencer Krug

I sometimes wonder

If you were breathing underwater

Or if you simply came to exist the instant your twin hooks broke

The air

Like the claw of crab

Coming out of the water

The constellation of Cancer gone crazy

Next comes your massive skull

Wide and white and rippled like a seabed

Little hills rolling down to black oblivious eyes

An empty turtle shell on the sand beside an empty turtle shell on

The sand

Hiding nothing, knowing nothing

Not understanding that there’s anything to understand

They say that he sent you

But what does that mean?

Did he point to the door with his pitchfork while you slept like a

Dog at his feet?

Did you walk for days upon the Mediterranean floor

Your hooves kicking up sand in slow explosions

And getting shipwrecks caught in your horns?

Or did you bubble up from the brine

Piling up like wet clay

Taking form like a tumour

Taking your first breath then taking notice of the day?

Next comes your massive skull

Wide and white and rippled like a seabed

Little hills rolling down to black oblivious eyes

An empty turtle shell on the sand beside an empty turtle shell on

The sand

Hiding nothing, knowing nothing

Not understanding that there’s anything to understand

Why couldn’t you bow down

Your coral coloured head

And turn back to the sea

Why couldn’t you bow down

Your coral coloured head

And turn back to the sea

But you just put one hoof in front of the other

And humped up the beach to the front of the palace

Where they waited for an answer to their dances

So l guess you are my father

And I guess that she’s my mother

So l guess I am a prince

And I guess I am a bastard

So l guess I am an outcast

And I guess I am a monster

And I guess I am a god

Since a god was your maker

And I guess that I forgive you

Since at heart you‘re just a creature

And your massive skull

Wide and white and rippled like a seabed

Little hills rolling down to black oblivious eyes

An empty turtle shell on the sand beside an empty turtle shell on

The sand

Hiding nothing, knowing nothing

Not understanding that there’s anything to understand

An empty turtle shell on the sand beside an empty turtle shell on the sand

Hiding nothing, knowing nothing

Not understanding that there’s anything to understand