Shane McCrae

Petrarchan Sonnet on the Electrified Sea

Picture a boat     whatever boat a yacht
Okay real big     don’t picture a canoe
No two     -man fishing boat the     sky is blue
Beautiful day     no clouds     and it’s just hot
Enough you’re shirtless on the deck     you’ve got
A Diet Coke on the table next to you
Sweating     the can looks beautiful a new
One and the pretty     stewardess right brought
It smiling you’re about to drink it     but
The yacht is green folks     powered by a bat
-tery a huge one     and it sinks     now what’
Cause there’s a shark too sharks like sun too that
Shark’s tan lean hungry you    get eaten or
Get fried    who’s left to save the planet for.

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