Down By The Water's Edge

Down by the water's edge
      Down where the land's shed
Runs headlong into the sea
      At the mouth of the Manasquan

Down where Neptune's pawns
      Rise up to be checkpoint sentries
            Supervise
      As brackish forces
Penetrate and integrate
      Becoming sea swill as fast as
A human might breathe in the harbor's fog
      Forever now belonging to the vast
The wide Sargasso Sea
      Stretchung from here thousands of miles
To the mouth of the Mediterranean
      Where civilizations as we knew them
Once began their march across time

And we stand here at the Contental ledge
      Able to contemplate our fate
            Our place in the world
      Our past
Our future

Down by the water's edge
      Down where the land's shed
Runs headlong into the sea
            At the mouth of the Manasquan


Fir Conversations With Walt
Denis J. Kelly
December 1, 2011