The Fishermen, The Gulls & The Bible People
by Michael Estabrook
funny morning on
the beach about 9 AM
I’m alone but
then these 2 guys
with beards & long hair
& cigarettes dangling
from their mouths,
these 2 fisherman,
appear on the shore
in a motor boat
toss in an anchor
drag 4 really
big fish, 2 Sea Bass
I think & 2 Blues,
onto the clean
pure sand & cut them
open spilling out
a pile of glistening
red guts there for
the gulls to get
then next to me
2 pretty young women
with wispy blonde hair,
scanty bathing suits &
a little blonde boy
spread a blanket rub
suntan lotion all
over each other’s
smooth backs & legs &
tummies (to drive me
crazy no doubt)
& start talking
all about the Bible
reading they’re
planning for
the Watch Tower people.
Jesus. the gulls –
a whole flock of
them – find the pile
of guts & they
squawk & flap &
squabble & in a minute
or 2 the guts are
all gone & so are
the gulls leaving me
alone here on this
beach with these
2 Bible people & the
little boy. Jesus.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 66. Томас Мур.
- I Shall Forget
- Paragraphs from a Day-Book by Marilyn Hacker
- Character Of The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- Virgule by Thomas Lux
- The Garden poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Projector by Shreekumar Varma
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
- From the bay at Tago poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
- Prospect by Sylvia Plath
- Hear the Voice by William Blake
- Exeat by Stevie Smith
- Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
- Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Did Not by Thomas Moore
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