The photo opens my memory
of the freedom of the beach
space where everything is possible
where I chased my fantasies
until I flew away with them
into the sky
but there was always a noose
around my ankle, with a rope
that pulled me down again
and when I took a run
and jumped into the sea, I just
washed ashore after a while
to the family at the tables
under a roof of imitation straw
with the bride in the middle
who used to crouch here and then
looked back and winked at me
while she peed in the sand