Gull patrol
paranoiac survey
is it “I want to have a lot of sex”
or “I want to have sex a lot”
Paddle ball
wave swell
submerging the fabrics of the ’20s
at the only decent thrift shop
the TV shows still under the spell
of 9/11 and there
the little dictator
gassing his people
and here the handcuffed dead
and now the lifeguard slides
with expert force his tall red chair
backward along the sand to the ridge
the high tide makes at the edge
of the dunes.
Tide coming in
The profit and the loss
A surfboard for rescue
and few in the water
but remote seals and rumored sharks