[Rhodes22-list] All tied up

[Joe Camp]

Friends:
     I will not have my boat until the end of July, but no sense in letting this question go:  I have never tied up at a slip before.  Mine will be on a lake, in a protected marina and is a floating dock.  Please give me some advice on the best way to accomplish this seemingly mundane task.  Poem follows.
Joe


     Me

                                                            JJ Camp

“I wish that Michael 

wasn’t dead,” she said to me

on a day after he was gone.

“Something’s wrong!

I love—

I loved him Dad,

but I can’t cry.

So tell me why

I even said

I was his friend,

if I can’t cry.”

 

“And would you cry—

Dad—

you know—

if it was me

instead of Mike?”                                    1993