I almost killed you once
In a holiday resort in Turkey
In a chlorinated swimming pool
With children giggling and gaggling
Their parents sunbathing on plastic
Sunbeds because at last their time to rest
I pushed you down the slide shaped
Like an octopus or another sea creature
A silly little joke played on a younger
Sibling but your blue bathing suit got stuck
Between its filthy fibreglass teeth
And your tiny body hung upside down
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