the cape at the end of first

we fought our way onto skull beach
wrestled a hermit crab
into the muck
damn you wet sea!
I dare you dampen me again
hablamos español
con la cerveza y el sol
we read what’s forbidden in the dunes
we take a picture of the sign
we take pictures of the dunes and how we got there
we take pictures of the sky and how we look under it
we take pictures of shells and the road
and pine rows we saw from the road
we take pictures of the spirits
of people who lived in Florida before air conditioning
the crusty sun baked maniacs who lived there
because nobody else could stand it and because
they know their inner crickets

it was a day full of seconds
and firsts

This just in from our science department: the air around here is filled with invisible smoke. We're working hard to clear this up. Maybe we shouldn't have told you.