4 Dead By Sea Poem by Douglas Scotney

On one holiday day
by southern Australian waters,

at Cape Carnot,
two, father and 5 year-old daughter,
were washed off the rocks,
and a third,
who was stopped by a fourth
from jumping in
to try to save them,
sat amongst the rocks
and cried.

At Port Campbell,
a third, an international tourist,
was saved by a fourth and a fifth
in a helicopter,
after two locals,
father and about-to-be-a-father son,
who'd gone in in a boat to save him,
were washed out of the boat
and died.