1882 - A Party on the Beach

 

MLMM Monday Wordle invites us to write a piece using the following words:

share, clock, hand, party, warm, fried, crisp, cold, hard, enough, brown, safe.

A Party on the Beach

Hard.  Cold.  Utilitarian.

Municipal concrete seats,

Painted brown.

The lap of the waves,

Regular as clockwork.

The steely eyes of the gulls,

Wanting their share—

Wanting it all really.

A hand delves inside 

The warm newspaper parcel.

Old school.  No boxes here.

Inside, fried, crisp, warming—

Chips and battered fish.

Man eating shark.

The gulls fidget, edge closer.

Wings give them courage,

Make them feel safe enough

To gate crash.  

A flourish of unwanted chips—

A melee of beaks and wings.

Then… gone. 

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