My mother is afraid of wata neva learned to swim Black folx born in 50s were fleeing interminably nowhere safe no time to swim leisure nah we aint safe I was born with fluid in my lungs and a thumb in my mouth so my breath from birth was strange Mami tried to make me fish but I came out baby at 3 months my my mom returned me to wata swimming lessons until school age I was a guppy then a fish then a dolphin and something else all together the water called to me sang to me soot