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Surfers salted and tan
came in from the ocean

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to set their boards atop
the stationary crests that

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shaped to the sand
shifting below

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and rode the waves for hours.

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Tourists lined up on the river's
edge to watch them close up,

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fascinated by the tensed
crouch within arm's reach.

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When you close your eyes and
imagine the ocean's ideal wave,

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you're not standing on the
beach meeting it face to face,

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but are at presence hovering
above, as though in a boat,

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but there is no boat, not
even a visible shoreline,

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just vast blue.

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This view is the abstract you.

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On TV an octopus finds a sunken
Corona bottle half his size

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that perhaps a tourist
tossed off a fishing boat.

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One leg circles the neck
as though washing a pot,

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and then all eight
legs snake in,

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followed by the
beak and the eye,

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closed, pushed through,
and opened again.

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Only the mantle swings in the
deep, like a seaweed bulb,

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like a heavy water balloon
that in an instant collapses,

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it's crumpled skin
bulging against the rim

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as it threads through, too.

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