South Brouhard Beach, Venice, FL |
Without our machines, how vulnerable we seem,
Curiosities, weak and fleshy and ill-adapted
To wind and water and sunlight and the tides,
No longer strengthened by a constant search
For food, drawn to what overpowers us,
Testing the surf just enough to thrill
At the nearness of death, at play
In the "Shark Tooth Capital of the World."
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