Sea Spray

Sea Spray (getting my salt on again) Shake the cobwebs from my mind hidden places elusive hard even for me to find shedding layers, strings unwind Grow me a red beard shave my head, shipboard doo thinking clearly, feeling weird situations often worse than feared Making up recipes for camel ball soup eel meat, pinches of saffron powdered rhino snoot For now, no more baby poop Up another gangway leaving it all behind one more Captains office, ‘Articles’ signed taking the watch, changing the clocks Exactly what am I trying to find *** Through salt stained window dawn rises rubs the whitecaps from her eyes and stretches. . . on forever *** Eat your citrus get in the loop prevents scurvy maybe even the whoop potatoes or yams, one pound a day And you, yet to get a sloop