Living with mermaids

 It's all just attachment theory

The stresses and strains

And the colours run down the drains

We've washed ourselves clean

In the new green machine

But I still cannot wash out the stain

I mean

The blood spot

of a murder scene

In which we killed our love

Got away clean?

Scot-free

Neither

lest the bonds of guilt

Struggle to hold the mermaid

As she tries to leave the sea

Mermaid

 I saw a mermaid in the sea

But she could not come up to me

I said the sea went way over my head

And she was in it and the sea was red

Come walk on water Jesus boy she said

I knew you were living, but I didn't know you were dead

She said I'm half fish don't you know

Not fully grown, not

Ready to bear human child

Come fisherman

She said,

Fisherman

Search for the souls

Fisherman,

I am half fish

But I'm not whole.

Fisherman greet me catch me 

And toll,

Toll the rocking ship's bell for me

By the time the clock's struck twelve

I will be free,

I will have grown

And be full woman not a girl

I'll leave behind my scales 

Keep my pearl

But it all was just as it had been

The fisherman unfurled the net

And set the mermaid free

The Queen of the Aquamarine

 She's such a middle class mermaid

She shops in Ocean and aquarium tanks

She thanks

Her postman for the letters from the blue lagoon

And swims into the underwater banks

Now I saw you had dated her too

She lost a few of her scales to you

With me I think she piled on the pounds

But in the end she was landed by a fisherman from France

Whatever became of her famous tail?

It glimmered in the sun, and in the

Fish market sale

When I asked the fishmonger to remove

Tail and the head, 

I think he must have misunderstood what I said

Because now my mermaid is dead

She was a middle class mermaid

From the blue lagoon

But she hadn't been back there in a blue moon

She had a mum and dad, and a sister too

Who was so jealous she could swim

With the Penguins at the zoo

Well I loved her then,

And she became my wife

But I never did know how she would change my life

You she told me once the sea was waving at me

But I never realized this meant she wanted to be free

And I stole away in a yellow submarine

To track her down, the Queen of Aquamarine

Then I saw she'd found her promised land

Down beneath the waves in the arms of Aquaman

Well she was middleclass mermaid

With the sea breeze hair, that blew with fresh mint

Smell in the air

And her toothpaste soul, it was so clean

That beautful girl, the Queen of the Aquamarine