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I thought I would end
with a few poems that

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use old-fashioned elements of
rhyme and meter and repetition.

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And I would make the
move through a poem

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in the same location
as "Beach Read".

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The poem titled "Nude Beach."

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"Nude Beach."

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"We swam and sunk in
our birthday suits

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as did two dozen or so others.

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It was easy to tell us
newcomers, pretending

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to read a book or snooze.

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I dared not oil your back
or stand far enough away

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to take in the whole
of your form and skin.

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I looked up to
the side and said,

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sky, sand, in a kind of
chant to hold my desire down.

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I feared I'd lose the delight
of the waves, the mild breeze

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that after each swim
left us chilled.

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Watching the others
was my other pleasure.

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The blond and well-hung crew
cut youth walking drunkenly

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back and forth at
the edge of the surf.

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The other crew cut
fellow who played

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with himself faster and
faster, a wind up toy each

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time the walking
mechanical boy got closer.

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And the Earth dark
half of the Vaders.

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No tan lines.

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The veterans, their demeanor
betraying no desire.

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The one had shaved
his public hair --

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pubic hair."

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[LAUGHS] That's a good change.

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"The disinterested slathering
of extra lotion up cracks,

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on cocks and scrotums, a
few stretching exercises

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has six of them all
shapes and sizes

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prepared for a volleyball game.

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Thin clouds cast a bluish
tint by late afternoon.

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Though we lay or swam or
walk together all day,

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I've hardly seen you.

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Just a hint of thigh,
you're back above the waves.

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And when we talk, your eyes.

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When the clouds lifted,
brightening our skin

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in the towels.

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The water is green.

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I gave us all another itemizing
look, our various affects,

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our private
dimensions, so numbed

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by my lack of imagination.

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I touched your hand,
then opened a book."