Another Time, Another Place. [Poems and Prose]

Lemon Shark

Do you come here often?

It's certainly nice here, in this little

enclave by the shallow. You must

like it to come back every

odd season. Don't you? I would too.

Oh, the children are very sociable,

one of them swam up to me

and bit my equipment. What? No, he didn't

bother me at all. Blunt snouts

are good for knocking cameras

over - you don't think so.

Oh, well, that's alright. 

Say, doesn't it get all dreary,

lying on the seabed all day?

I heard the cleaner fish get ticklish

sometimes. Crabs make a

good dinner, yes, I agree.

Did I ever tell you how pretty

your skin looks? No? It's the

most sublime yellow hue,

like pineapples in a sunset.

It's smooth to the touch,

see, like premium leather.

Your teeth - Ow! Hey, that's not nice!