Bodies are slumped everywhere
Like beached whales
Or dead dogs

Beer cans scattered
Like Napoleonic corpses
And bottles too
Are transparent cannons

The sun is up
But we are not
And my drugged delight
Of the night before
Turns to wonder

Wonder at our futility
As we swim out from the shore
To be carried by the waves
To whatever coast will have us
Or to forever sleep in ocean bliss

Stiff and heavy-eyed
I leave before the whales awake
And return to my family

William Prothero

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Kitty Kat (7/27/2008 7:11:00 PM)
This has to be one of my favorite poems....

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