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
- A Lover’s Prayer by St Antoine de la Vuadi
- Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis by William Cowper
- Evening by Sappho
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Британишский – Снились двое товарищей по Салехарду
- A Day Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- ‘Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love by William Wordsworth
- The Forsaken by William Wordsworth
- Гавриил Державин – Философы, пьяный и трезвый
- Иван Бунин – Нет солнца, но светлы пруды
- Hai Kou
- Poet Herodia of ancient Pincaeia by Raj Arumugam
- The Burial by Rudyard Kipling
- Turtledove of the Green Land – Dedicated to Tunisian poet, Huda Hajji by Nizar Sartawi
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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).
