Honoring rules far less well on the beach
than with the observance expected at home
we tend to forget what our ministers teach,
the rules of Jerusalem, Canterbury, Rome,
appearing redundant when lying on sand,
enjoying the surf, and the breasts and the thighs
which the men who wrote rules did not well understand,
oblivious of curves that are shapely and size
of those parts of the body that wettened by waves
trigger thoughts of transgressive free love in the sun,
California is dreaming where everyone raves
about breaches on beaches observed having fun.

5/12/06

gershon hepner

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/california-is-dreaming/