Slip & Slide

Nowhere Friday with
blank shorebreak foam
& a tsunami warning (waves
bouncing off the devastion in
Japan surging towards us
500 miles an hour
                                                but that’s a
long way to travel & it’s a
tsunami ripple surge when it gets
here knocking boats around in the
harbor capsizing a few
              beneath the lemonade sun
inundated with apocalyptic rumors
as one might kickflip a chunk of concrete
& land like Cortez
on the shores of Montezuma
(another righteous dope fiend who ain’t never
coming home
                                                bottoming out in the
Pacific sludge
                              the tide will get high in a couple of
hours
              but I’m slightly below that now