Thursday, February 28, 2013

Banana Boat with Watches


Each sunset is payday at the docks
When the boats have unloaded

Nets full of fruit and boxes of watches,
The glasses you wear make your face

Seem electronic and full of stray pixels,
That‘s when I go to work and roll over

and pretend to sleep when whistles blow,
What blows is working for loveless cash rewards,

What’s in the nets, what lurks in the boxes
Is a guess answered only by thieves when

They work overtime against a woeful wind
Of the watch they’re stealing, and the next

Day all that remains are banana peels and
Apple cores falling from nets, into my lunch box

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