Line Drawn In The Sand Poem by Joe Rosochacki

White sand beaches
Stolen from the sea floor
Being pumped to land
Where tourists are at hand
Soaking UV rays
In the future
Your skin will show it that it better days
White sand beaches
Are composed of refuse
Parrot fish by millions
Well over million years
Have reduced corals humble abode
To minute particulate ‘sand’
By spitting or excreting out the encasement
Which the corals had lived
This is what I have told
And I saw it in person to my amazement
5-6 blue parrot fishes chomping away
With an unending crackle
At a rather big coral formation
Spitting out the calcium carbonate
After they devoured the coral within the hard ‘rock’
Black sand beaches are the result of refuse
That was excreted out of the bowels within the earth
There many sand dunes
Sahara Desert, west of Lower Michigan, Gobi Desert
Two of which border no water whatsoever
Sleeping Bear looks Lake Michigan
I wonder how many of people thought
Sunning them on excrement.

8-3-09