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Lonely Beach
Lonely Beach
The dark waves
Pound the shore
While the gulls
Shriek ahead
The sand is dirty
Not a nice clean white
The beach smells
Like rotten fish
And seaweed
Is scattered on the beach
Great big smelly
Globs of it
Threatening
To pull you in
The sea is dark
And uninviting
Like a monster
That wants to eat you
A rotten pile
Of wood
Stands still
Condemned to death
This dark lonely beach
Used to be beautiful
And that hunk of wood
And rusted metal
Used to be a pier with
arcades, movies, and restaurants
Children used to play
On it’s beaches
They used to make
Sand castles
That they
Decorated
With seaweed
And sea shells
That the
Waves washed up
It used to have
Beautiful white beaches
And gentle rolling waves
But that was years ago
Before the
Shark attack
Now no one goes in
And if they do
They run out screaming
Because of the cold water
Most people like
To sit and play
On the beach
That’s a mile away
Tanning
And swimming
Surfing
And building sand castles
But I love that
Lonely beach
No one goes there
But me
I can stop
And think
About when I
Get older
How I will
Bring my kids here
To walk
Along the beach
And maybe
Then people
Will forget
About the shark
And play there
Again
But until then
I will have to do
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