Fool’s Day

Reserachers suspect some questionable
hanky-panky in the intertidal zone…

I’m not so sure but that rain falls

& I’m looking at a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
on the cover of a CD
              he looks like a member of Metallica
                              in their glory years

Yeah, well my glory years have passed as well

& the storm surge crushes the point
              as I note on my habitual drive-by
Victory at Sea conditions prevail
                              with 20-plus foot waves
              folding thunder in gray-white foam

& I just sat there gazing out into the
primoridial mist while
parked beneath a palm tree that rattled
like a sick whore
in the rain