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Two material things that cemented a friend ship One a boat that started out as a ten foot aluminum skiff Morphed six times into an eighteen foot cuddy cabin hull And two an eight foot pool table that was re covered once His idea of boat use was to dig sea worms, and clams. Use the worms to catch flounder and skate Fillet the flounder then use the racks and skate to bait Ten lobster traps. We ate flounder and lobster. There was one old lady we stopped at on the way home To drop off a couple of fish. She used to pay but after a while it was too hard to take the money Probably for the same reason a lucky shot or an unplanned kiss Made either one of us spot the ball Rules? The code we lived by taught our kids how to live He never allowed me to pay for anything I brought food and his kind of beer We lagged for break once and after that the loser racked We cleaned the fish before we shot any pool He told me once There is no joy in owning a boat without a friend The lobster paid his family dental bills The pool table created two better than average sharks We lived four towns apart Now they live in Florida We could be closer Maybe