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
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- Шекспир – Меня не радует твоя печаль – Сонет 34
- The Quest by W H Auden
- Life and Love by Nithin Purple
- Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again poem – John Keats poems
- cascades of emptiness by Steve Troyanovich
- This is Love by Rumi
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Валерий Брюсов – Гребцы триремы
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет рядом никого, как ни дыши
- Кондратий Рылеев – Мне тошно здесь, как на чужбине
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Lord Gregory: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
- The Brook poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
