Adventurer
How desert islands
in a cartoonist's imagination
invariably are flat,
palm-studded
peopled by a solitary, abject
yet humorous man.
In real time, no delight;
such islets
are razor hot,
rock sharp
treeless, barren
slabs ... examples
of art shirking, but
not shrinking life.
Three days growth of beard,
bottle with note on the incoming tide
comic survivor swimming up
(tramp steamer in the distance),
shirts waved in unison
predictable disappointment et al,
glum hands to face
then the inevitable credulity
splitting retort
amid plaything for the crabs.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 88 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 10 |
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