MONTEREY BAY CYCLE SLUT

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MONTEREY BAY CYCLE SLUT

She responds to the pull of the moon
Twice a day
Her tidal bulge is dragged cross this beach
By the Earth turning eastward
Under lunar gravity's distant tug

She responds to the pull of the moon
Her waters teem with microscopic life styles
Her waves brim with sticky fishes
with wet diatoms
with invisible sperm and egg
with metric tons of slick crustaceans
All night her depths glisten with signals
Human-unreadable mood exchange
Between billions of luminescent minds

She responds to the pull of the moon
She travels round the world with gangs of men
She flaunts her body, howls, eats strange drugs
She is uncontrollable
She murders her children
She nurses her young on her breasts
She is every sailor's wet dream
She feeds the hungry, heals the sick, buries the dead
She leaves blood on the sheets
She fucks on all fours
She will never stop weeping.

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