Dead Jellyfish

Dead jellyfish rot at the wrack line of Coos Bay

A homeless woman wearing yoga pants hunts for shiny stones in a rivulet

Another homeless woman screams, “Shut the fuck up!” in the willows

Her tiny red dog wanders out with the appearance of suicide in its face

Four geese waddle toward water

Ospreys build a nest

Elmer takes a triple Mike Johnson

Dad’s probate nightmare finally ended

It left me with visions of violence,

machinations in the mind

Earlier, I saw a bald eagle scavenging

a crab in the sand

Interesting we chose a scavenger as our national bird

Sounds about right

Ben Franklin wanted the turkey.

There are no Ben Franklins defining the Republic today

Only Mike Johnsons

After the bald eagle,

I saw a seal dying near the jetty,

BLM lackeys spraying herbicides

in the shore pines

I’m writing this in a dive bar

The regulars are singing the Oscar Meyer wiener jingle

A homeless man entered to gamble

He’s wearing a Timex watch

Why?

I want to write a love letter,

but don’t know her address