Snoozing In Schools.

Snoozing in schools.

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Way down in the oceans deep 

what do fish do when we sleep

do they close their bulging eyes

blowing bubbly lullabies?

Do they snore creating sounds

muted by water all around?

Perhaps they lay down on their sides

just drifting with the ocean's tides

across the sandman's vast supplies.

Do they snooze when the seas turn black

their tails unmoving... fins all slack?

do jellyfish sleep in their sacks,

those puffy bags upon their backs?

Do electric eels switch off their current?

the hum would be a sleep deterrent?

do octopuses often hate 

their feet falling asleep, "all eight??"

Do plankton nap on ancient wood

the boards of shipwrecks lost for good?

Do swordfish sheath their pointed nose

so no one's stuck while in repose?

do eels go into fetal curls

their skin electric blankets?

do schools of fish all share

huge dorms in an underwater campus?

do flouders flop around all? night

flipping from front to back

their floudering grants them no sleep

hopeless insomniacs

do groupers all have one big cave

where they gather each night?

all huddled in a fishy mass

asleep until daylight

Do sardines snuggle as they doze

like those found canned in tidy rows?

It looks quite comfy..I suppose.

Are they all snoozing unaware

that sharks could be 

their next nightmare?

Does sleep mean that 

they're dead for sure?

lying still lures all predators.

The ocean bed is not too great

for sleeping you could wind up bait.

I guess they spend their days and nights

eyes open with or without lights.

It makes a lot of sense to me,

I'd get no rest as a fishy

if I lived deep beneath the sea.