Swimming in the Ocean

[Mirah]

So I'm just like swimming in the ocean
and I'm just floating there
swimming along
paddling my boat
letting my legs rest in the sea
feeling the sand in my toes
on my toes
water up my nose
in my ears
my eyes
everywhere in my body
sand and water

 

[Mirah]

I'm just swimming in the ocean
meeting all these creatures
sometimes staying for 2 days or 3
just the ocean and me
and sometimes a whole community
and then I decide I gotta go
I don't know why
I don't know where
I just know I have to go somewhere
and it isn't here
I pack up and I go
I mean not much to pack when your swimming
just some extra fins and scuba gear
so I get all ready to go and I say my goodbyes
and I go
I swim along
just keep paddling the boat
keep on rowing
just go from shore to shore
spreading the good joy
and seeing what there is to see

 

[Mirah]

what there is to sea
to see
eat in the sea
what is there to eat
for me

 

[Mirah]

Can I take my clothes off and live with the murrmaids? And live on a rock like a seal? What if I really am a pirate? What if I only have one leg? How about a patch on my eye?

 

[Loktar]

So I'm just like swimming in the ocean
and I'm just floating there
swimming along
paddling my boat
letting my legs rest in the sea
feeling the sand in my toes
on my toes
water up my nose
in my ears
my eyes
everywhere in my body
sand and water

 

[jack]

I live so far from the ocean it's a treat when I actually get there. But I rarely swim in the ocean.

 

[Loktar]

I live so far from the ocean it's a treat when I actually get there. But I rarely swim in the ocean.

I've never swam in the ocean. Lakes and ponds but not the ocean.

 

[jack]

We used to go to Revere Beach when I was growing up in downtown Boston. They had a real wooden boardwalk and nickel pinball machines. I used to swim in the ocean then.

Good times.

 

[Loktar]

Before the coronavirus, I had plans in August to go down to Miami and hang out on the beaches. My friend's sister lives down there with her husband. I don't think that is going to happen now.

 

[jack]

We were going to Portugal for a couple weeks end of September (for our 40th anniversary) they cancelled the air flight and now I'm fighting with them to get my tickets refunded.

 

[Loktar]

Luckily I hadn't bought any ticket, I just had possible plans to go there this summer. My friend was supposed to go down there in March for his sister's birthday and had to get his ticket refunded.

 

[Chuckles51]

The last time I swam in the ocean I almost drowned, I got caught in the undertow. If it hadn’t been for my cousin yelling to me to swim sideways, I would have drown. I stick with pools now, or just getting my feet wet.

 

[jack]

Luckily I hadn't bought any ticket, I just had possible plans to go there this summer. My friend was supposed to go down there in March for his sister's birthday and had to get his ticket refunded.

I just got the credit card company to go after them for the charges. Now have a "provisional" credit.

 

[jack]

The last time I swam in the ocean I almost drowned, I got caught in the undertow. If it hadn’t been for my cousin yelling to me to swim sideways, I would have drown. I stick with pools now, or just getting my feet wet.

I remember watching someone get swept out like that from the beach one morning. I don't remember what happened after that.