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Thursday, October 1, 2015
THREE: BY SOUTH OCEAN BLVD
I was thinking that somewhere far
off an ocean must roar. But not with the sounds of the tides alone. It must
roar with colors, - the hues of the water sometimes green and sometimes blue
but more often than not a mixture of the two. Things jostle and jockey for
position, and it’s these two colors that definitely make for interesting
swirls, textures, and so on. I am not so much for the color red. Too flashy. I would even
go so far as to say it is more often than not a vulgar color. Things that are
red include blood and sports cars and fast-food signs. No, green and blue are
the colors for me. Maybe a light orange. Who knows? But the sea. The sea must
be there, and it is sour grapes I guess that is part of why I think of it.
Someone else is looking from a balcony or even better, - from the ground, at
verdant palm leaves getting kissed by the salty breeze. Ah. And the ocean
provides this gestalt that is full of prowess. That is not to mention all of
the things in there to ponder. I can hardly even go on to think about the piers
at dusk,-say, - one on each side of those palms, - to the north a few miles,
and to the south. Which one would I go to? Which one would we go to? The one to
the North has a lighthouse. That all has its own mystery. Good, yes. But I
think the one to the South should be chosen. Why? I don’t know. There are
abandoned catamarans we could sit and rest on. There is a long bungalow of a restaurant
with lights that cast a certain glow that reach out to the sand at night. It
must be there. It must still be there. In fact I know that it is.
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