The boaters who pass by the canal
are friendly and cordial
like good Southerners
I love sitting out on the pier practicing my Japanese
suiei,
oyogu,
mizu,
and they paddle lazily by
hardly making noise
wave
smile
good evening, Miss

The wind from the ocean
shoos away the the mosquitoes
I almost feel bad
people from these parts are so sweet
I'd don't quite fit in
but they don't mind it

No one lives here
All the homes are rented
there's a silent understanding
that we are all vacationers.

Driving the beach
father, daughter ***** jokes
mom is not pleased.

That's how things go
now, we haven't been to this particular beach before
every year, we go to a little island called Chincoteague
that I spell differently every time I type it
and apparently, it was a little dull
so now we're on Virginia Beach
well, the less populated arm of the place
We're a half an hour away from Virginia Beach proper
and so Mom,
Dad,
and I,
went cruisin'
gawking at things
and girls
See, Dad gets that I like girls
well, girls and boys,
but I don't ogle boys
anyway
and the ***** jokes we make are great
I tell ya,
I want to **** him 3/4 of the time,
but the man is funny as hell
We see a Ben and Jerry's
Hey Christine, want a bj?
Oh Pa, you know me too well!
Guysssss Stopppppp (that one was groaned by my mom, she doesn't do that nonsense)
(She does a lot of nonsense, and it's funny too)
(But Dad isn't really my friend)
(So I guess this is weird)

Driving the beach
father, daughter ***** jokes
mom is not pleased.

a creature of fury
writing in the summer winds
flowing like a rip tide
just dying to claw us all apart
me, you, all of you.
i'm an animal from it
and i would cut off my own arm
to sate the beast
such raging tempers
are hardly human.

a creature of misery
trying to drown itself
it holds its head down
and keeps being pulled back
by a force it does not understand
and does not care to
i have spilled so much of my own blood
to try and sate the beast
such billowing masochism
makes me hardly human

the two lock arms against me
but they will not work together
every noose one ties
the other chews through
every knife one holds to a throat
the other finds restraint
they are me
but they are not the other
and i would slit my own throat
just to stop the fight