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To the man wanking at us on the nudist beach

To the man wanking at us on the nudist beach.

 

My body

Is the iron of my ancestors:

Constant creation.

It is weightless

In water,

A ripple

It stretches and shrinks

Like the days of summer.

My body runs warm like a shower

Glows like a gallop

Ripens and slides with sweat.

My body eats the world

Licking every second

And glides into itself

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Red Pearl

Red Pearl

 

You are such a beautiful woman and I spent my life trying to find you

as I look at the waters of the beach, so beautiful and so sparkling blue

but in the water, I see something shining and I see it staring at me

I must go get it, before it is too late

the wind is perfect and it is such a perfect day

 

I see it and I swam for it and I saw millions of diamonds

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beach

Today I took my daughter to the beach

Where water meets dirt

As a great man once said

Where roses bloom too early

Dew droplets

Drip

Seductively

From the petals of youth

Where lost souls

Dreamers

And the dreams they dream

All go to die

To be snuffed out

Where the grains of time

Meet the ravages of age

Where the brine picks out a heartbeat

Tick Tock

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