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2title: The sea and the beach
3id: the-sea_the-beach
4genre: verse
5
6project:
7 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
8 class: autocento
9...
10
11Waiting for a reading to start \
12when there's nobody coming anyway \
13is like waiting [for the tide][] \
14to make some meaning of the beach.
15
16The sea doesn't know or care \
17what the beach even is, let alone \
18its cares or its troubles, its \
19little nagging under-the-skin annoyances \
20[that make the beach the beach][].
21
22Sandworms, for example, or those crabs \
23with big pincers on one side \
24but not the other. Those really get \
25the beach's gander up, but the sea \
26doesn't care. The sea
27
28only wants to [caress][] the beach \
29with its [soft arms][], to tell the beach \
30how much it's loved by the sea, \
31that complex of water, salt, and \
32the moon's gravity, the mercury \
33rising up and down slowly, like a [yawn][].
34
35The sea only cares about itself. \
36The beach lays there and takes it.
37
38[for the tide]: cold-wind.html
39[that make the beach the beach]: real-writer.html
40[caress]: plant.html
41[soft arms]: something-simple.html
42[yawn]: serengeti.html