the poet's plane went  down on the spot where
Amelia's bones are buried;               cannibals
d                             eveloping the neighborhood building waterfront
condos & villas, contracting to build a marina
to attract the boating crowd;                     big city dollars from over the sky;
the poet                         met Sheila walking what he thought
the medicine man said                          was a deserted island               .           
                                  she invited him
back to her                    hotel room &  called own for a meal                  & bandages & patched up his                                               cuts & ****** him off
    Sheila was a successful business

entrepreneur w/       virtual plastic surgery; project the face u want people to see
a               3D print the face u want                   holographic mask that massages & soothes w/ light                                thriving          tech-cosme­tic company
this wasn't he               r first time playing George
   he started calling Lea Sheila
time        .                                 was his name but he'd start to                      forget
        Good Samaritan the poet was lost,             Sheila's agent flew down & collected George's poems
puttin g                  enough in the bank         for the three to live well enough until the next tsunami
   dazed thinking he was going out of his mind w                            / nowhere to go but to         the beach         George, Lea & her
              but down to                    the beach & Sheila's room; her business partner taking a few days                                                          off­ wound up
              .               sleeping w/ the for w
.                                                riting about the bad weather he
       was nominated                       for the                   Nobel Prize                  .                 in literature
                          Lea's mother  was a **** ******* ** who always had a smile & stayed ***** w/ weird little pink pills the medicine man gave her                            poet & he kind of stayed                     on   in exchange for ***      
    mostly on the beach & when tornadoes
                  came through & ore up the plac          Lea's mother             e he volunteered w/ everyone else to help find                      those who vanished & then          to rebuild       he wrote about them & s dementia     didn't keep him                                  from writing
the little ***** named                          Lea wanted to be     a believing
               Catholic Roman but                        she was a *****;
ometimes read is weather                 poems live over a ham radio to be broadcast in the
a local ******* took an      her john are good about paying                            
        interest in him
& he got phone calls from Sheila
                   asking about his health Lea's
                  kr a ***** too--made twic what her daughter made               in the big city
but when every is        did it matter                 ruined she has to
  Sometimes when she read George his poems Lea would throw in bits of the Bible                          to improve her
.            English by the time she           well read & became        an eloquent     speaker     George didn't know which was which                                              **** for free & collect later \
woman on a brief        .                 two-day hiatus on the far south sea islan       d                         where she kept an open reservation;                          & he was grateful;                   the young                   ***** took to wading                                  .                    is poetry back to him
w/ the last tidal wave she &        Gorge became a        sort of prophet predicting the weather w/
George refused to shave his beard & his wife gave up after Sheila's lawyers bought her off    
his poems & the medicine man
.               brought his friends the other medicine
            men from the surrounding
                         islands & initiated George into the cosmic tribe & made every happy & drunk George married
  .                                    Lea & her               aged but lively       mother in an ancient island
                    ceremony dating back  after the episode w/ his wife George regained his senses; George was
at his best after every thing was annihilated thankfully      
taking thankfully           inventory            of the dead & destroyed / George living there the place became a tourist trap
.                     .
he became the laureate of the cluster of small islands         & atolls He bought a condo high above the sand y        beach so he could see the waves smashing down on              the houses on the shore
.              to the very first humans; wow, a George lucidly                     to  everyone's surprise like it was miracle;
Sheila, Ruthie her partner & Abigail the          agent attended the well attended ceremony;                    George even made the press wires word getting back to his wife
in Bayonne; her husband missing                several years & give up for dead                her mother took to staying w/ the
                 increasingly             forgetful   poet in the suite
he told S             heila &    
    .                           she felt terrible  &       .          started sending money
so they could get by
Lea s                   topped smoking crack    
Sheila said she was                flying out in
the morning but that he could keep the room;
            it                                  was paid for by                      her company; her own company  .           she kissed his forehead as he slept

Everyone on the island was grateful to George & the poet grateful
to Sheila who appreciated Lea & her mother for looking after him.