Orbit

The salesman moves into his house on Wednesday
and wakes up on Thursday underwater, his cat
is upset and a mermaid is watching him sleep.
She has black hair and a sea shell bikini on.
She is baring her sharp teeth. The moon passes
low overhead, humming like a biplane.

He opens his mouth to speak and the words come out:
Telephone hello we are enter we are enter enter
you not and we I enter hello please moon please
make my house the house. Moon says hello too close
the house says moon, close to hello get out
hello moon enter get moon out get out.

He is underwater.

The salesman gets the sense he is being unclear
he gets the sense the mermaid is not impressed
by him. He grooms his wet mustache, trying to be
mysterious before the mermaid who is opening her mouth
wider and wider until from in the midst of her teeth
an immense missile emerges.

It has a picture of a trucker painted red on it,
seductively posing, fat tumbling endlessly in
all directions like a waterfall. The trucker's
fat soaks everything in fat and everything is wet
The salesman stands back in awe as the missile
explodes from the mermaids mouth and tears her

apart like the best shark.