She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asleep. She didn't know her absence woke him, that the shift in the bed was an earthquake. When she climbed back in, she smelled like salt and seaweed. Sometimes her hair would still be knotted on top of her head. She tried to keep it dry. She didn't want him to know. The problem with marrying the mermaid girl from the carnival was knowing that one day she'd swim away. .Erika Swyler
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"She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asleep. She didn't know her absence woke him, that the shift in the bed was an earthquake. When she climbed back in, she smelled like salt and seaweed. Sometimes her hair would still be knotted on top of her head.
She tried to keep it dry. She didn't want him to know. The problem with marrying the mermaid girl from the carnival was knowing that one day she'd swim away." is a poem written by American author and poet Elizabeth Smart .
It describes a woman who has married a man who is very abusive and neglectful towards her and her children. One day, when he is asleep, she goes out into the ocean and swims away into the depths of the sea where she lives underwater during the day and comes back to earth at night to be with him. Although this woman is not always physically present with her husband, she remains close in spirit and continues to love him even though he pushes her away at every turn and doesn't show her any kind of affection or affection at all.
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