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
- Haiku by Robby Charters
- On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот что для голодающих прислали из-за границы, ассоциации и частные лица (Главполитпросвет №363)
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
- Спиридон Дрожжин – В деревне
- The Wanderer by W H Auden
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пекарня
- Robert Burns: To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N: On her Principles of Liberty and Equality.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тот, кто раньше с нею был
- Олег Бундур – Как папа прогуливал школу
- Named by Stephen Dunn
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Let me draw your face by St Antoine de la Vuadi
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
